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US to send 400 troops to train Syrian rebels [American Media Compliant, Unquestioning]
BBC ^ | 1/16/15

Posted on 01/16/2015 6:21:56 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

The US Department of Defense is to send 400 troops and hundreds of support staff to train moderate rebels against Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

It is not yet clear where the troops will be drawn from or where they will be based, though Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have offered to host them.

The US aims to train more than 5,000 rebels annually for three years.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bias; media; obamacult; qatar; syria; terrorism; turkey; waronterror
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An expansion....remember, we are training "moderate" Islamic radicals.......under order of Obamugabe and his boss Valerie.

Not a damn word of criticism from the media.

1 posted on 01/16/2015 6:21:56 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

More McCainian arming of jihadis?


2 posted on 01/16/2015 6:23:54 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: SoFloFreeper

What are the chances that the U.S. will be training some ISIS troops in that group? Of course, we will.


3 posted on 01/16/2015 6:26:15 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: SoFloFreeper

I see that Syria was again offering to share intel on terrorism the other day.


4 posted on 01/16/2015 6:27:00 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Maybe while they’re over there they can go get some training from the Peshmerga.


5 posted on 01/16/2015 6:30:20 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Great another opportunity to resupply ISIS.


6 posted on 01/16/2015 6:30:52 AM PST by AU72
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To: SoFloFreeper

So now Obama is using US troops to train jihadis who will kill Westerners and Americans with the weapons and skills provided by the US.


7 posted on 01/16/2015 6:32:11 AM PST by Truth29
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sounds like Vietnam......................


8 posted on 01/16/2015 6:35:37 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Who will they fight? Assad, ISIS, each other or join the ranks of one of the above? A cluster Obama of a result in waiting.


9 posted on 01/16/2015 6:36:14 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny, dontchyaknow.)
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To: Truth29

....aaaand become potential source of hostages


10 posted on 01/16/2015 6:43:25 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: SoFloFreeper

About a year and a half ago wasn’t ISIS then referred to as “Syrian rebels”?


11 posted on 01/16/2015 6:45:48 AM PST by circlecity
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To: SoFloFreeper

Or tie GOP.


12 posted on 01/16/2015 7:12:50 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I hope they train them to shoot themselves in the face.


13 posted on 01/16/2015 7:19:46 AM PST by The Toll
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US to send 400 troops to train Syrian rebels
Four hundred? All it would have taken was one Marine.
14 posted on 01/16/2015 7:21:49 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Or the GOP.


15 posted on 01/16/2015 7:33:59 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

These are the Democrats doing this. You remember the Democrats? Frothing at the mouth over the Contras. Screaming about Cowboy Diplomacy. Yeah, those Democrats.
Now, they overthrow the government of Libya and train rebels for Syria?
Oh, the silence from the universities is deafening. All those professors can go hang themselves. The only things our universities teach are hypocrisy and cowardice.


16 posted on 01/16/2015 7:34:29 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The ‘moderate’ rebels are almost all disappeared. They are either dead or joined with ISIS.

It’s been decades since we made a good foreign policy move.


17 posted on 01/16/2015 7:40:19 AM PST by lurk
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To: SoFloFreeper

This will be a complete and total failure - must learn from experience, they cross over and become ISIS with our weapons in hand - this will probably cause the loss of American lives and for what - for nothing.

We need to help form a coalition of friendly nations to combat ISIS, AQ and Taliban with their troops and then support them in doing so. Friendly nations would include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and and maybe a few others. Egypt hates the Muslim Brotherhood and is best positioned to lead such a like-minded coalition.


18 posted on 01/16/2015 7:57:10 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This reminds me of the pit bull fighting “industry”. They breed and train pit bulls, and then they wonder why so many people are getting mauled.

Stop——training——muzzies.


19 posted on 01/16/2015 7:57:56 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: oh8eleven

Yeah he is sending 400 troops to train 200 rebels. And the MSM swallows it whole.


20 posted on 01/16/2015 10:08:29 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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