Posted on 10/19/2014 8:56:42 PM PDT by GonzoII
The U.S. military said late Sunday that it had dropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Kurdish forces battling to hold the Syrian border town of Kobani against Islamic State militants.
The airdrops were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani. Earlier Sunday, U.S. Central Command said that it had launched 11 airstrikes overnight in the area.
CentCom said U.S. C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani.
In a conference call with reporters after CentCom announced the airdrops, senior administration officials said three C-130 planes dropped 27 bundles of small arms, ammunition and medical supplies. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
One official said that while the results of the mission are still being assessed, it appeared that "the vast majority" of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters.
The official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace.
The airdrops are almost certain to anger the Turkish government, which has said it would oppose any U.S. arms transfers to the Kurdish rebels in Syria. Turkey views the main Kurdish group in Syria as an extension of the Turkish Kurd group known as the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terror group by the U.S. and by NATO.
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The military has spent the last six years watching Obola throw every other institution under the bus, especially the numerous trashings of the intelligence services. They don't want to end up under the bus too.
President Obola is putting them back into Iraq with no clear mission and too few troops. He is putting them into a viral hot zone with huge risk and no upside. They are probably not very happy.
If Obama ordered it, you can be sure that the reality is the weapons were really delivered to ISIS, and not a single Kurd got more than a splinter.
Where is the liberal outcry for their dear leaders warmongering?
All I hear are crickets, and not one leader in government on other side of the aisle pointing out the hypocrisy. Where is George W, Mittens, Bush SR, Cheney, anybody out there?
Nothing like a day late and a dollar short. It’s the Obama Way. Getting this president to do the right thing is like pulling teeth with tweezers.
If you mean that Obama is “trying to walk the Kurd/Turk line”, let’s name that line.
How about the “TURD LINE”? Sounds like Obama’s policy to me.
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