Posted on 09/12/2013 5:20:10 AM PDT by xzins
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian rebels for several weeks, following President Barack Obama’s decision to arm the rebels.
The agency has also arranged for the Syrian opposition to receive anti-tank weaponry like rocket-propelled grenades through a third party, presumably one of the Gulf countries that has been arming the rebels, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official and two former intelligence officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the classified program publicly.
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
9/12/13
“Syrian rebels face another foe: Al Qaeda-linked militants”
“...Walid Shawkan, the new commander of the displaced group, said fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacked his men in the town of Dana after a dispute over weapons. The Islamists seized the arms and declared the fighters from the Hamza Lion of God brigade to be apostates.
“They are not coming to fight the regime,” Shawkan said. “They are coming to fight us. We’re going to fight them first and then the regime.”...”
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-syria-fsa-alqaeda-20130912,0,25232.story
And we still supply them with the means to do so more efficiently. INSANITY
Saudi Arabia purchases a high percentage of their arms from the US (US manufactured arms) so the supply of arms is not truly non US manufactured arms. LIES, LIES, LIES
Both sides are the wrong side.... Stay out of it and let the Mussies kill each other. They always have and always will.
In July, Senate and House Intelligence Committees approved this..I don’t think this decision was given to the full house. When Diane Feinstein, who chairs the senate committee was asked about the secret vote for approval, she replied, “It’s classified.”
These House and Senate Intelligence Committee members who okayed this in July should hear from constituents.
So it is safe to say then that Obama (and this administration) has blood on his/their hands regarding killing of CHRISTIANS???
Oh there is no doubt of that at all. In fact he was, no doubt, counting on it.
And Christians are being forced to convert to Islam at the barrel of a gun purchased with our tax dollars.
Hell I bet the Syrian rebels are selling them to al Queda under the table for buttloads of cash and laughing at us the whole time.
> U.S. officials say the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian rebels for several weeks at least a year,...
There, fixed it.
Info out there indicates it was even before Benghazi.
> We are at war and the president of The United States of America........is on the wrong side.
For us but not his handlers...you know Soros, Saudi Arabian royalty, Ayers, Satan, etc...
> Reports of anti-tank arms surfaced several weeks ago, presumably through Saudi Arabia. But as noted, if the US is helping this would be contrary to Obama’s “public” orders.
And without Obama’s ...ahem...knowledge or approval per the ...ahem...plauible deniability clause...cough...cough
Obama is a traitor to the constitution. He was elected, but this is country founded on Rule of Law, and he is breaking it.
He is a traitor, and should be arrested and tried along with his minions.
I could just scream.
My loathing of the illegitimate, bisexual, Marxist Kenyan Muslim Usurper requires medication.
This has been going on at least two years - Benghazi was about supplying weapons to Syrian rebels, after all - why are they lying about it now? And how is it that we are openly engaged in this war already without the consent of Congress?
Ping.
CIA Has Been Supplying Arms To Syrian Rebels For Weeks
See article... !!! Check out comments, too.
Thanks, Old Sarge.
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Not to detract from the article, but here's part of a FRmail this morning:
"Syria was never about WWIII or any such nonsense. It was always a diversion and my guess is it will be of the front pages by the time the debt ceiling comes around.
"Syria was a diversion guaranteed to get minds worldwide off the other scandals. It worked better that Axelrod ever dreamed.
"However, the debt ceiling is something the left can win and blame on us. They will have to front page it. They wont be able to resist."
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Agree. He had to go.
Shouldn’t weeks be months?
THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THIS ADMISSION:
Was to simply claim this programs started only WEEKS ago.
That notion is TOTALLY RIDICULOUS.
It is a total certainty it began over 1 year ago, and it’s rather likely it started a little over TWO years ago.
In spook-speak this story is a LIMITED HANG-OUT —that’s where you try to get out “in front” of some totally undeniable HUGE story by making some highly publicized admission of a LITTLE story:
You turn what could evolve into a completely huge scandal by admitting to a comparatively tiny scandal that the hyenas noisily pounce on as you leap from the top of your Land Rover.
The only real tidbit here is that they’re probably supplying the US-made ATGM, the Javelin, which is light, reliable and incredibly effective —will give Assad tank crews LOTS and lots of worry.
All other parts of the story are dirty lies for stupid suckers.
Don’t hold back Sarge - tell us how you really feel...
Thanks for the ping Lucy...
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