Posted on 05/27/2014 6:10:26 PM PDT by mandaladon
At a secret base in Qatar, the US military is training rebels to raid Syrian government troops and vehicles, as well as to “finish off the soldiers still alive after an ambush,” first-hand interviews in a Frontline documentary have revealed.
The documentary, scheduled to air Tuesday night on PBS stations, offers rare insight into how Washington is fostering the armed insurgency against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
It features interviews by journalist Muhammad Ali with Syrian rebels presented as members of a “moderate faction” who describe a clandestine meeting with their “American handlers” in Turkey, along with the receiving of weapons and ammunition and the subsequent travel to Qatar for training.
At a Qatar base, said to be on the border with Saudi Arabia, the rebels allegedly received three weeks of training in the use of sophisticated weapons and fighting techniques, and also received new uniforms and boots.
“They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road,” a fighter identified only as 'Hussein' told Ali.
“They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush,” the masked rebel said.
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
They will use that vicious, inhumane treatment on US!
We are teaching war crimes
Providing this training is a war crime. A real one, not the Bush kind.
We have met the enemy and he is U.S.
Good old Russia Today.
this sounds similar to the many disinformation stories the Soviets use to spread about the US. I recommend taking it with a healthy dose of skepticism.
You want to leave behind wounded enemy to tie up more of the enemy tending to their needs.
If I recall correctly, one wounded takes 2 to 3 out of action caring for him.
These islamonazis don’t need our training how to murder people. They’ve got their Koran and they’ve already been butchering thousands. And crucifying Christians.
Why are we involved in this at all? These rebels are not the kind of people we need as allies.
Obama is funding terrorism.
We are involved because Obama supports the jihadists.
We are not an evil people.
But we have become an evil nation.
We are teaching war crimes
Literally
Killing prisoners is the most serious violation of the Geneva Convention imaginable.
These ba$turds are acting in our name and media is hiding what “we” are doing from us.
Like Third Reich?
Ditto....even as rotten as this administration is.
And the final conclusion may just be: "It was the Republicans fault!! Why didn't they stop it??"
are any of these idiots watching the situation in Libya ? and they want to duplicate that in Syria ?
the so-called “rebels” that were fighting Khaddafi in Libya and now fighting Assad in Syria are the same lowlife al-qaeda maggots that US forces were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, otherwise known as john al-mccain’s pals.
Please take this with a grain of salt. It’s RT. They answer to the Kremlin.
It appears the idea is to kill them before they become prisoners.
This is standard small unit tactics for conducting a ambush. You clear the the kill zone and double tap everything.
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