"The donations of nonlethal aid to the Syrian opposition by Washington
are often called small-scale, to the extent that none of the half-dozen
fighting groups visited by journalists for The New York Times, or the
many commanders interviewed in Turkey, claimed to have seen, much less
received, American aid.
“We haven’t received anything from the outside,” said Thayar, a member
of the ad hoc governing body in Kafr Takharim known as the revolutionary
council. (He asked that his last name be withheld to protect him and
his family from retaliation.) “We read in the media that we are
receiving things. But we haven’t seen it. We only received speeches from
the West.”"