Posted on 05/03/2018 10:33:50 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Less than two months ago the State Department hosted members of the White Helmets at Foggy Bottom. At the time, the humanitarian group was showered with praise for saving lives in Syria.
"Our meetings in March were very positive. There were even remarks from senior officials about long-term commitments even into 2020. There were no suggestions whatsoever about stopping support," Raed Saleh, the group's leader, told CBS News.
Now they are not getting any U.S funding as the State Department says the support is "under active review." The U.S had accounted for about a third of the group's overall funding.
President Trump put a freeze on the $200 million in U.S. funding for recovery efforts in Syria in late March.
U.S. officials are working to see if there is a way to adjust existing funding to cover the costs for these projects. They are also trying to get other countries, such as Germany, to cover some of the costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
President Trump put a freeze on the $200 million in U.S. funding for recovery efforts in Syria in late March.
Whose idea was it to fund those characters in the first place?
$600 million (total funding) for terrorist support group? I thought they were volunteers?
Genuine humanitarian groups are one thing. Muslim terrorist operatives or facilitators are another. We need to KNOW which this outfit really is. We also need to eliminate hezballah and their bombs and missiles now. Its quite possible this outfit may be taking our money and channeling it to the hezballah terrorist murder gang. We also MUST stop all funding of plo- pa - Hamas terror murder gangs By.usa Europe Arabia Iran. Now. Shot down the Muslim killers. Stoq funding them
why would you fund ISIS/AQ’s paramedics?
Perhaps the gov finally caught up with what we little folk realized. The White Helmets staged events and are most likely responsible for chemical attacks. The most recent one was quite sloppy. It was disillusioning that President Trump fell for it. Soon after, McMaster and Tillerson were gone. Any dots to be connected here?
DEFUND socialist/totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic.
“Genuine humanitarian groups are one thing. Muslim terrorist operatives or facilitators are another.”
They should all be defunded.
Meanwhile Sorros uses non profits to undermine private business worldwide and influence policies of fining banks and corporations with Obama funneling the proceeds back in the “non profits”.
It is the circle drain of liberal “life”.
I wouldn’t...but it seems that our State Department did.
These are the folks who helped to spread the lies about “chemical attacks” repeated with some passion by President Trump and even more passion by Nikki Haley.
This group should not be funded. Let the British and the Saudis do the dirty work since they are also funders of this jihadist ‘humanitarian’ group.
President Trump needs to stay out of the Syrian Civil War and not be suckered in by jihadist propaganda about ‘atrocities’.
Keep your word Mr. President about Syria being only about ISIS and nothing else.
The first of many allowances that need to be cut off.
why would you fund ISIS/AQs paramedics?
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good job on first step
Put tne axe to all soros NGOs next
Quit funding our enemies
So it was really the US White Helmets, not the UN, since it apparently cant operate without our dollars. I wish Trump would turn the UN building into a Casino and give it native American tribes. The UN is a joke.
My thoughts exactly.
The real info finally hit PDJT and this news more than likely came from the visit with BB that just occurred.
The chlorinate pools in every hotel they stay in. Its the least they can do. //sarc.
This is total madness. These lieing bastards staged thes non existent gas attack in Syria!!! We bombed a sovereiign country on a hoax. I had no idea we funded the hoax!!!
But who will stage all the false flag attacks now?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.