US-backed Syrian rebel division attacked & looted by Al-Qaeda affiliate

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US-backed Syrian rebel division attacked & looted by Al-Qaeda affiliate

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In what could be one of the worst failures of the Pentagon’s program to arm Syrian rebels, several bases with American weapons, armored vehicles and US-trained fighters were captured by Al-Nusra Front.

https://www.rt.com/news/335476-syria-nusra-loots-pentagon-rebels/
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Arms dealers are laughing.

Apart from them- does anybody else think that the ' Western ' attempt at illegal regime change in Syria was a good move ?


Also today- our ' allies ' the Turks are bombing our ' allies ' the Iraqi Kurds.
https://www.rt.com/news/335484-turkey-hits-kurds-iraq/

Arms dealers are laughing.

ISIL attacks kill 47 Iraqi soldiers near Ramadi
Suicide bombers hit Iraqi convoys northwest of Anbar's provincial capital, hours after ISIL attacked military barracks.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...aqi-army-soldiers-ramadi-160314082417532.html
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All along the razor-wired borders of arms-dealing Europe hundreds of thousands of refugees stand waiting in the mud.

Every civilian, everywhere, should work to end the arms trade- or it will kill us all, eventually.
 
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Old news. The Islamists frequently over-ran the FSA types and ate their lunch.

Gen. Idris used to flee back and forth over the Syrian border to Turkey.

as to Ramadi:

Since being pushed from the centre of Ramadi, ISIL has launched near-daily attacks on Iraqi forces, especially on its outskirts.
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I think that is eventually is going to be what happens (at best), ISIL becomes a lingering/hot insurgency,
recall they have lost significant territory..

But they are by no means marginalized yet.
 
gee you mean the good guys don't win everytime.


but if the right ran things everything would change huh.
 
moon2012 said:
It's not 'old news ' at all. It's ANOTHER example of US weaponry being distributed amongst US enemies by stealth.

Arms dealers are laughing.
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you need to diversify past RT

Report: Islamic State may have taken anti-tank weapons from Syrian rebels
September 7, 2014
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-anti-tank-weapons-taken-from-syrian-rebels/

Syrian rebels say Islamic fighters seize weapons December 13, 2013
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/syrian-rebels-say-islamic-fighters-seize-weapons

Akbik told reporters in London that it still wasn't completely clear how the Islamic Front came to control the warehouses at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey.

"The reality is that the Islamic Front are holding, now, the hardware," he said. "They should return it."

Akbik said Gen. Salim Idris, the Free Syrian Army commander, was in southern Turkey meeting with members of the Islamic Front to demand the return of the weapons.

On Friday, the alliance's military spokesman, Islam Alloush, said he had no information about such a meeting, adding: "What is there to talk about?"

There are conflicting stories over how the Islamic Front won control of the warehouses. The Islamic Front denies that it took the weapons by force, saying it was responding to a call for help from the Free Syrian Army after the group came under attack from unknown gunmen.
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*although I hadn't checked Long War Journal to see this had happened yet again...*
 
anatta said:
you need to diversify past RT

Report: Islamic State may have taken anti-tank weapons from Syrian rebels
September 7, 2014
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-anti-tank-weapons-taken-from-syrian-rebels/

Syrian rebels say Islamic fighters seize weapons December 13, 2013
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/syrian-rebels-say-islamic-fighters-seize-weapons



*although I hadn't checked Long War Journal to see this had happened yet again...*
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This is yet another event;
Interestingly, Al-Nusra has a history of looting US-backed opposition forces: last summer, jihadists kidnapped members of the US-trained Division 30, while in September a whole stock of US-supplied weapons and hardware was captured.
Published time: 14 Mar, 2016 05:52
https://www.rt.com/news/335476-syria-nusra-loots-pentagon-rebels/
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RT reports are as good as any other mainstream reportage. Don't you like the publicity ?

Syria: US-Backed “Moderate Rebels” Attacked by “US-Backed” Al-Nusra Rebels

http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-...attacked-by-us-backed-al-nusra-rebels/5514091

More;

https://news.google.co.il/news/more...OdwXGw7dTyVPM&authuser=0&ned=en_il&topic=awkl
 
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