Thousands of FSA rebels were trained in a covert CIA programme in Turkey and Jordan.
Reuters: Syria rebels blindsided by U.S. move, say jihadists to benefit
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Thursday a U.S. decision to halt a covert CIA program of military aid would mark a big blow to the Syrian opposition and risked allowing jihadists to tighten their grip over the insurgency.
Rebels who have received aid under the CIA program said they had yet to be informed of the U.S. decision first reported by the Washington Post on Wednesday and confirmed by two U.S. officials to Reuters.
A Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander said the U.S. decision risked triggering the collapse of the moderate opposition, which would benefit President Bashar al-Assad and jihadists linked to al Qaeda that have long sought to extinguish more moderate groups.
Other rebel sources said much would depend on whether U.S.-allied regional states Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey kept up their support to groups fighting under the FSA banner, which had been the focus of the CIA program.
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Update : In Syria, the U.S. Reverses Course (Stratfor)
WNU editor: President Trump's critics are saying that this decision dooms the Syrian rebel movement .... Trump’s CIA Decision Dooms Syrian Rebels (US News and World Report), and that it is a win for Russia/Iran/and Assad of Syria .... Analysis: Trump's cutoff of aid to Syrian rebels marks victory for Assad, Russia and Iran (Oren Dorell, USA TODAY). I say the opposite .... U.S. assistance was too late and inconsistent to begin with, the Syrian rebel movement itself was (and is) deeply fragmented, and for Syria/Iran/and Russia .... they are now involved in a quagmire that will take years (if ever) to quiet down. This Washington Post analysis gives a good explanation on why this CIA program did not only fail, but probably caused more problems than good .... What the demise of the CIA’s anti-Assad program means (David Ignatius, Washington Post).
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Trump sold out to Putin...simple as that
Lol so your pro terrorism then huh
Set up your Sharia court Wahhabi state on someone else s dime!
Sounds like we found some immigration candidates. What could go wrong?
"Trump *FINALLY* fulfills one of his campaign promises
Trump campaigned on not arming people in Syria. Because they’re bad hombres. All of them. Well, believe it or not, he finally delivered on that campaign promise.
Sure, it makes Russia happy. I’m sure that Putin is chortling. But honestly, this was one of the occasions where Trump was right during the campaign. We had no business getting involved in the Syrian Civil War in the first place. Assad never did anything to us. Hell, compared to his daddy, who was a genuine son-of-a-bitch who massacred half the population of Hama for having the audacity to embrace the Muslim Brotherhood, Assad is a puppy dog. By the standard of Middle Eastern leaders, he’s a frickin’ saint. Our asshole “allies” in Saudi Arabia do worse shit than Assad was doing before the civil war inbetween rounds of golf.
So yeah, let’s quit arming sides in that civil war. If we want to fuck up ISIS, we don’t need some asshole who’s just as likely to switch sides as fight ISIS anyhow. The only people we know are effective at fighting ISIS and aren’t assholes are the Kurds, and arming them opens up all sort of geopolitical whup-ass especially with Turkey. Which is why we should do it — pissing off dictators is always fun as hell — but the CIA’s program wasn’t arming the Kurds. Because they always back losers. Always. Just ask anybody in Southeast Asia…."
https://snarkypenguin.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/trump-finally-fulfills-one-of-his-campaign-promises/
The CIA Program armed and trained "vetted" moderate Islamic Jihadi Headchoppers like Ahar al Sham and Liwa al Quds, who had a long history of fighting alongside al Quida and ISIS, a long history of their own programs of ethnic cleansing, public executions and slavery, and a long history of selling/trading CIA provided weapons to ISIS and al Quida.
The Pentagon Program, of support for the YPG/SFA Alliance against ISIS, continues.
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