(Al-Monitor) Laura Rozen - The Syrian Support Group received a waiver last week from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) authorizing it to provide logistical and financial support to the Free Syrian Army. "The OFAC decision is huge," said Brian Sayers, the Washington agent for the SSG. "It gets us the leeway to support the Free Syrian Army in broad terms." In the near-term, the "OFAC letter allows for providing financial, communications and logistics support to the FSA," Sayers said. On their more intermediate term wish-list, "our ask is intelligence support, drone support, eyes in the sky, an intelligence platform," Sayers said. Free Syrian Army commanders have recently increased their coordination, including holding conference calls almost daily, Sayers said.
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