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U.S. training Free Syrian Army in Jordan — a group that violently targets Christians
Jihad Watch ^ | Feb 7, 2014 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/08/2014 7:23:45 AM PST by Mount Athos

The U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army — those are the “moderates,” you know. How moderate? This moderate: in July 2013, Free Syrian Army fighters entered the Christian village of Oum Sharshouh and began burning down houses and terrorizing the population, forcing 250 Christian families to flee the area. Worthy News reported that just two days later, Free Syrian Army rebels “targeted the residents of al-Duwayr/Douar, a Christian village close to the city of Homs and near Syria’s border with Lebanon….Around 350 armed militants forcefully entered the homes of Christian families who were all rounded-up in the main square of the village and then summarily executed.” And in September 2013, a day after Secretary of State John Kerry praised the Free Syrian Army as “a real moderate opposition,” the FSA took to the Internet to post videos of its attack on the ancient Syrian Christian city of Maaloula, one of the few places where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still spoken.

This is just the faction Obama is backing. This is America’s shame.

“West bankrolls Free Syrian Army fightback,” by Tom Coghlan and Norhan Keshik for The Times via The Australian, February 8:

"THE West and Gulf states are funding a new military offensive by rebel forces around Damascus in an effort to throw the Assad regime on to the back foot before a second round of Syria peace talks.

The attack involving 18 rebel brigades was accompanied by a fresh influx of money and weaponry channelled through Jordan, where the US has established a training base for the FSA, say rebel field commanders. It includes $57 million in cash to pay the rebels."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christianpersecution; freesyrianarmy; fsa; iran; jordan; jordantrainingbase; lebanon; ntsa; putinsbuttboys; robertspencer; secstatekerry; syria; syriachristians; syriarebels; syriawar
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1 posted on 02/08/2014 7:23:45 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

This is one mission in which I cannot say “I support the troops.”


2 posted on 02/08/2014 7:31:49 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Mount Athos

What should one expect from a fellow islamist?


3 posted on 02/08/2014 7:32:44 AM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug
Exactly! And kill them wherever you find them (Quran 2:191)
4 posted on 02/08/2014 7:38:26 AM PST by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: P-Marlowe

Whose troops? The “Free Syrian Army”, wrongly being backed by the Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut, in no way represents the interests of the United States as a nation, though they probably are good surrogates for the Current Regime.

Just don’t be sending in members of the US military to be training and equipping them. Leave that up to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. They are evidently being funded by some of the Middle East oil money, though definitely NOT the Saudi Royal family. (Can’t tell the players without a score card.)


5 posted on 02/08/2014 7:55:35 AM PST by alloysteel (Obamacare - Death and Taxes now available online. One-stop shopping at its best!)
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To: alloysteel; xzins
Whose troops?

If American troops are training the Free Syrian Army then I do not support those troops in that mission. Any Christian who is assigned such duty should refuse the order. They are setting themselves up to be put on trial as war criminals.

6 posted on 02/08/2014 8:01:40 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: alloysteel
though definitely NOT the Saudi Royal family

Of course the Saudi royals are funding this, knowingly, from Prince Bandar on down.

I appreciate your sarcasm, but we need to speak plainly.

7 posted on 02/08/2014 8:02:02 AM PST by Praxeologue
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To: Mount Athos

I just wrote a letter to Isakson, Chambliss, and Kingston, asking them to stand with Christians in the ME and Africa, and to support any bills in Congress that support the Christian communities and to challenge the support of the “rebels” that are carrying out the slaughter of such.


8 posted on 02/08/2014 8:02:45 AM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: Mount Athos

I’m not surprised. The Muslin Moo-la that resides in the Mosque on Pennsylvania Avenue that used to be the White House, is anti-Christian, thus supports the murder of Christians. He is seeking to put his caliphate here in Amerikastan. So, no surprises from this murdering thug regime.


9 posted on 02/08/2014 8:05:27 AM PST by RetiredArmy (All that call upon His name shall be saved! HE is the ONLY way to heaven. Only HIM!!)
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To: P-Marlowe

I believe the Brass in our Military that has been retired and removed were the Patriots, so they would not stand in the way of this nonsense.


10 posted on 02/08/2014 8:07:04 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

All I am wondering is when the mil is going to drag the traitor out.


11 posted on 02/08/2014 8:16:14 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
U.S. training Free Syrian Army in Jordan — a group that violently targets Christians

That is the reason that Obama is training and arming them--to attack and murder Christians.

To answer your question, they are not. Each day Obama is placing more of his yes men in positions of leadership in the military. Also each day, mostly unreported people with Christian leanings are being purged from the military. But the people, voters, had a choice to make two times and each time they chose Obama. That tells me that they approve this.

12 posted on 02/08/2014 8:26:03 AM PST by sport
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To: Mount Athos
U.S. training Free Syrian Army in Jordan — a group that violently targets Christians

The Closet Muslim soiling the White House knows what he is doing....


13 posted on 02/08/2014 8:45:00 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
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To: sport

0bastard won because of massive coordinated election fraud, and the GOP pushing Romneypuke on us. Even with him, the criminal fraud would have done the trick.

So the majority of Americans did not vote for the fiend. Second, many people are so stupid that they did not know what he really believes. The MSM all need to be strung up as well.

I do not think the American people will just lie down and die.


14 posted on 02/08/2014 8:56:37 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

Do you think they ever will?
I thought for sure Roberts would help kick out Obamacare but he voted for it as a tax, so even the Supreme Court is of no value. Blackmail with NSA help may be going on?

The Senate at present is worthless, so who will step up and do the job? 2014?? Even a Senate that is Republican can’t do a lot with him still in office.

I do not see a 2016 Presidential candidate that seems viable, or has the guts to do what needs to be done to reverse all the damage.


15 posted on 02/08/2014 9:00:44 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: P-Marlowe; alloysteel

I have had friends in Jordan for about a year from a very high profile American Army division.

I posted a thread about it during the Assad/Obama confrontation


16 posted on 02/08/2014 9:52:11 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: P-Marlowe; alloysteel

One of the speakers at the republican club dinner last year was a Iraqi Kurdish Colonel who had attended the US War College with a Colonel who was friends of one of the local members. His English wasn’t great, but his presentation was moving and an appeal for a US presence in Kurdistani Iraq.

Was he telling the truth? Was he just saying what he knew we wanted to hear? Who knows?

That would be the problem for our troops in Jordan. They might honestly think they were training Jordanians, but how would they know?


17 posted on 02/08/2014 9:58:56 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Kackikat

DISTURBING: The List of Purged Military High Officers Under Obama:

http://conservativeangle.com/disturbing-the-complete-list-of-purged-military-high-officers-under-obama/


18 posted on 02/08/2014 10:26:10 AM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Mount Athos

Christians : if you do not own a sword , acquire one . Be ready


19 posted on 02/08/2014 10:29:16 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Mount Athos

This is what John McCain wanted to. Crazy.


20 posted on 02/08/2014 10:30:11 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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