Who knew?
Posted on 10/15/2012 11:30:33 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.
That conclusion, of which President Obama and other senior officials are aware from classified assessments of the Syrian conflict that has now claimed more than 25,000 lives, casts into doubt whether the White House’s strategy of minimal and indirect intervention in the Syrian conflict is accomplishing its intended purpose of helping a democratic-minded opposition topple an oppressive government, or is instead sowing the seeds of future insurgencies hostile to the United States. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“The opposition groups that are receiving the most of the lethal aid are exactly the ones we don’t want to have it,” said one American official familiar with the outlines of those findings, commenting on an operation that in American eyes has increasingly gone awry.
The United States is not sending arms directly to the Syrian opposition. Instead, it is providing intelligence and other support for shipments of secondhand light weapons like rifles and grenades into Syria, mainly orchestrated from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The reports indicate that the shipments organized from Qatar, in particular, are largely going to hard-line Islamists.
Zer0 and H! are Jihadists.
OK by me as long as the Syrian government keeps up and the Iranians get so far in they can’t get out. More dead Mudslimes the better.
Romney and Obama both support ‘rebels’ in Syria.
Assad is kind of on a par with the way Qadafi was.. not a problem. Are we going to foment rebellion just for its own sake? The Syrian rebels are jihabists, we’ve known that all along! So among the rebels are a small token number of liberalized Muslims that wouldn’t play a role in the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafist govt that the rebels would install. Don’t send them anymore weapons.
And look at this. A radical Sunni Imam that support the Syrian rebels says that RUSSIA is the “first enemy of Islam.” http://weaselzippers.us/2012/10/14/top-sunni-imam-declares-russia-the-first-enemy-of-islam-for-supporting-syrian-regime/
And we align with this Imam? Align with Russia on this, I’m afraid.
Who knew?
It may be the first Iranian nuclear strike won’t be against Israel but against a new Sunni Syrian regime.
It must be far worse.
Arming everybody has a way of keeping almost everybody honest. The few who break the trust get converted the hardway. Give ‘em weapons and keep it up until the fighting stops. I’m not seeing the downside of this bunch of Ottomans killing each other. If they thin their own herd maybe they might shift from banging their own sisters and slowly join a later century than the 12th. And while we’re at it maybe we could air drop in a couple loads of flush terlets.
This is what happens when you vote the third string junior high football team ( the Obama Administration) into the NFL.
Or electing a “rock star.” Everything the White House touches turns to sh*t.
SO..... the willing idiots from the US took ships to try and go ESCORT some ships to the Middle East for aid. We suspected there were arms on board.
Where were these shipments going to ?
wow! i’m shocked !!!
...that the NY Times actually reported this.
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(thanks for posting this!)
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