He said the FSA was fielding fewer than 1, 500 fighters in the fight for Qusair, armed only with light weapons.

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While President Bush did go along with a new international agreement meant to make it more difficult to engage in illegal international trafficking in light weapons, he properly refused to subordinate domestic ownership of such weapons to supranational purview and dictates.

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