Posted on 06/27/2016 12:33:15 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials.
Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, F.B.I. officials believe after months of investigating the attack.
The Jordanian officers who were part of the scheme reaped a windfall from the weapons sales.
The training program, which in 2013 began directly arming the rebels under the code name Timber Sycamore, is run by the C.I.A. and several Arab intelligence services and aimed at building up forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The United States and Saudi Arabia are the biggest contributors, with the Saudis contributing both weapons and large sums of money, and with C.I.A. paramilitary operatives taking the lead in training the rebels to use Kalashnikovs, mortars, antitank guided missiles and other weapons.
American officials say that the C.I.A. has trained thousands of rebels in the past three years.
The program is separate from one that the Pentagon set up to train rebels to combat Islamic State fighters, rather than the Syrian military. That program was shut down after it managed to train only a handful of Syrian rebels.
President Obama authorized the covert arming program in April 2013, after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the C.I.A. to train rebels trying to oust Mr. Assad.
By late 2013, the C.I.A. was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria.
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This crap pisses me off to no extent! This is why Beghazi happened. This is Owebowma and Killary. This is what a criminal government does. This is our government.
Fast and Furious 2, the sequels are usually not as good as the original
I wonder how many ended up in ISIS hands.
I’ve been saying this for the last year or so: Syrian rebels have been killing Christians using weapons that Obama gave them. Does anyone care? Apparently not.
...that’s because you have a nitwit in the WH who appoints nitwits. The government needs a COMPLETE overhaul
Obama’s govt. is our ENEMY! he detests America.
We had no business doing ANY of it.
How many of these “rebels” are Al-Quaida, ISIS,etc?
Probably all of them.
So we are half-assedly bombing them while at the same time arming them. Plus letting the resulting refugees flood our country.
Great job, Bam-Bam. /s
We need to get the hell out of these countries. They are of no use to us. Let them fight it out between themselves!! Who cares? I was against Viet Nam too,
Next time some uber-leftist brings up Iran-Contra, I’ll remind them of this.
The CIA used to be America, for America.
Now it is an arm of Islamic Terror for al Qaeda.
Shame.
Shame.
Shame.
Trump has been saying it for the past year. Including several thousand armored fighting vehicles given to the Iraqis, who abandoned them to ISIS at the sound of the first gunfire.
An important story. I wonder how far this goes - how many sophisticated weapons are floating around.
Wait for the cover-up.
The acting and posturing is always much better.
How about connecting the dots? Along with those arms came training and an attitude that it's okay to go terrorist mode. These "refugees" are flooding Europe and the US with their skills and mind frame.
So the same people who have lost, walked, and provided 10,000s of weapons to the worst elements in the world want more control over our firearms. As I said yesterday we need government control not gun control. go
Yeah, the idea of our government being able to determine the good jihadists (they’re all bad) through vetting is a joke. The FBI had two sit-down interviews with Omar Marteen and and got a tip from a fellow mosque member that Marteen was into ISIS videos and propaganda. Still,they didn’t watch him or monitor his activities.
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