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Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA
Reuters ^ | 10-02-2015 | By Laila Bassam and Andrew Osborn

Posted on 10/03/2015 10:26:01 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a sign the civil war is turning still more regional and global in scope.

Russian warplanes, in a second day of strikes, bombed a camp run by rebels trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the group's commander said, putting Moscow and Washington on opposing sides in a Middle East conflict for the first time since the Cold War.

Senior U.S. and Russian officials spoke for just over an hour by secure video conference on Thursday, focusing on ways to keep air crews safe, the Pentagon said, as the two militaries carry out parallel campaigns with competing objectives.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: astroturf; cia; iran; israel; lebanon; paidrussiantrolls; putinsbuttboys; russia; russianstooges; syria; vladtheimploder; waronterror
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This is from yesterday, but wow, what a headline, especially coming from Reuters.
1 posted on 10/03/2015 10:26:01 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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putting Moscow and Washington on opposing sides in a Middle East conflict for the first time since the Cold War.

Starting to look like Obama is going to get his dream come true, a chance to SURRENDER!


2 posted on 10/03/2015 10:31:27 AM PDT by eyeamok
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“Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA”

What could possibly go wrong?

Not much that hasn’t already.

Whatever moral force and rectitude the nation once known as “the United States of America” used to have, is now entirely squandered.

Nature abhors a vacuum. It is being filled most rapidly.


3 posted on 10/03/2015 10:31:55 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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They can’t F Up the Middle East any more than we already have.


4 posted on 10/03/2015 10:32:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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The CIA has a habit of training and arming the wrong side. Not that this doesn’t offer plenty of chances to stir up trouble.


5 posted on 10/03/2015 10:34:05 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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It was just a few weeks ago that we learned that the Syrian "rebels" the US had trained had joined radical groups instead of doing whatever the US was training them to do. If that's the case, shouldn't the US accept that SOMEONE has to disintegrate them?

It all lends credence to the speculation that the US has no interest in destroying ISIS.

6 posted on 10/03/2015 10:36:54 AM PDT by grania
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It all lends credence to the speculation that the US has no interest in destroying ISIS.

Wildly sepculative but I think ISIS is zippY and his a##clowns creation


7 posted on 10/03/2015 10:39:54 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Things just got real.


8 posted on 10/03/2015 10:41:11 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: ronnie raygun; All

From Twitter:

RUSSIA SENDS FURTHER REQUEST FOR US TO CLEAR SYRIAN AIRSPACE - AHEAD OF NEW ACTION


9 posted on 10/03/2015 10:42:03 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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“The adults are now in charge.”


10 posted on 10/03/2015 10:42:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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ISIS or ISIL has become ISUS Islamic State of the US.


11 posted on 10/03/2015 10:46:08 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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***trained by CIA***

Did they get all FIVE of them?


12 posted on 10/03/2015 10:47:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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In a real world we probably should have supported Assad. (Yes, he is an S.O.B. but he would have been our S.O.B.) By our actions supporting Democratic fanaticism our mortal enemies have now gained and entrepot leading to the ultimate Russian goal flanking of Europe. America is governed by stupid malicious people whose sole goal is a "payback" and they are not above using foreign nations to achieve that goal.
13 posted on 10/03/2015 10:48:47 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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ON top of the hospital bombing = pretty bad headlines for dear leader today -

wonder how they holding him down in the WH - he must be raging.

The gloves are off - and the world is watching - and they are all threaten3ed by ISIS.

Who are they going to depend on to save their hides from ISIS?


14 posted on 10/03/2015 10:48:50 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christians are as Christians do. By their fruits...)
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The CIA should be destroyed and scattered to the four winds. Cold war era spooks that haven’t done anything right in forty years.


15 posted on 10/03/2015 10:53:29 AM PDT by SpaceBar (S)
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/08/05/us-backed-rebels-stumble-foray-into-syria/31178479/


16 posted on 10/03/2015 11:21:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Persian Empire # what 4 or 5 ?


17 posted on 10/03/2015 11:21:35 AM PDT by butlerweave
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When was that put out?


18 posted on 10/03/2015 11:22:54 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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Good job Brennan. Blood on your hands too.

5.56mm

19 posted on 10/03/2015 11:24:24 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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Was this the CIA trained group that after training promptly turned over all of the newly acquired equipment to ISIS?

Or the group that dropped everything pretending to be civilians?

Or the group that ,,,


20 posted on 10/03/2015 11:37:01 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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