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Asked what he thought of the idea of arming so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels after FSA militants kidnapped UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, General McInerney said the policy had been a failure.
“We backed I believe in some cases, some of the wrong people and not in the right part of the Free Syrian Army and that’s a little confusing to people, so I’ve always maintained….that we were backing the wrong types.”
In May last year, Senator Rand Paul was one of the first to speculate that the truth behind Benghazi was linked to an illicit arms smuggling program that saw weapons being trafficked to terrorists in Syria as part of the United States’ proxy war against the Assad regime.
“I’ve actually always suspected that, although I have no evidence, that maybe we were facilitating arms leaving Libya going through Turkey into Syria,” Paul told CNN, adding that he “never….quite understood the cover-up — if it was intentional or incompetence”.
In addition to ISIS obtaining weapons from Benghazi, many members of the group were also trained by the United States at a secret base in Jordan in 2012.
Aaron Klein was told by Jordanian officials that, “dozens of future ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.”
originally posted by: the owlbear
a reply to: pavil
Who is to say they aren't?
They just haven't been given the go signal.
Yet.
You want to ignore how this admin tried to sell us the idea that a YT video sparked the Benghazi affair? You don't think that's material?
originally posted by: pavil
U.S. General: “We Helped Build ISIS” – Islamic State Obtained Weapons from U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya
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I know this has been talked about but there seems to a lot of unanswered questions.
Asked what he thought of the idea of arming so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels after FSA militants kidnapped UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, General McInerney said the policy had been a failure.
“We backed I believe in some cases, some of the wrong people and not in the right part of the Free Syrian Army and that’s a little confusing to people, so I’ve always maintained….that we were backing the wrong types.”
In May last year, Senator Rand Paul was one of the first to speculate that the truth behind Benghazi was linked to an illicit arms smuggling program that saw weapons being trafficked to terrorists in Syria as part of the United States’ proxy war against the Assad regime.
“I’ve actually always suspected that, although I have no evidence, that maybe we were facilitating arms leaving Libya going through Turkey into Syria,” Paul told CNN, adding that he “never….quite understood the cover-up — if it was intentional or incompetence”.
So we have the Benghazi arms deal gone horribly wrong Conspiracy. That to me has never been fully explored. I remember hearing reports just prior to that of U.S. Concerns over missing SAM's in Libya.
Then there is this potential BOMBSHELL. It was reported at the time, then conveniently swept under the rug.........
In addition to ISIS obtaining weapons from Benghazi, many members of the group were also trained by the United States at a secret base in Jordan in 2012.
Aaron Klein was told by Jordanian officials that, “dozens of future ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.”
Again, I remember seeing reports of extra American Advisors in Jordan to train some Syrian Rebels.....I've never seen a report detailing what groups those Syrian Rebels were a part of.
Is it possible/ likely that we either knowingly or unknowingly ended up training and arming the core of what would coalesce into ISIS/ISIL????
It's like Al Qaeda's formation in Pakistan/Afghanistan in the 80's, did we just end up backing and arming a whole group of psychopaths?????
To me, who we were training in Jordan is the real smoking gun.......... who were they, how did we arm them, where did they end up going and fighting. My recollections of the articles I read at the time were that we were training them in Special Ops kind of stuff.
I'm not hear to bash the Administration, it just as easily could have been a Republican Admin doing this............ Please don't go there. Just stick with any facts that may help figure out the tangled web left behind. There sure seems to have been some clandestine arms smuggling and training of People in Syria....who did we end up dealing with there. It's seems every side is Syria is Seriously flawed, The FSA, ISIS and even the Syrian Government ALL seem horrible. I don't thing there is a group there morally worth backing, it's just the lesser of Really Evil People. Not a good thing.
I just want to find the truth out.
originally posted by: bjarneorn
a reply to: pavil
Before you go down this road, you should take a look at this site
Deformed Children
A THOUSAND STARS MY FRIEND.......!
Watch it, and read the article. And after you're done, ask yourself this question ... what would you be willing to do, if these children were born in your hometown? Seriously, 9/11 is nothing compared to this. This is so horrible and so vile, that there are no words to describe it.
And after you realise that, you should use your vote to make sure that your government will understand in the future, that any person from the middle east, man, women, elderly or a child ... is your potential, and almost certain enemy. Any organisation or government, intent on aiding or abedding people from the middle to east, to enter or live here ... is aiding a potential enemy.
These are the hard facts, that you need to realize ... after that, you need to start asking a lot more serious questions than the ones you are asking now. Like, if the damages to the Children are done by weaponized uranium ... and depleted uranium does not hold enough weaponized uranium to cause it ... there is only one conclusion to that. That the US and their allies, used tactical nukes during the conflict.
Knowing this, and having this as a background. You should realize that your government are at this very poment, paranoid schizos. Who are literally afraid of their own shadow. They know, they have it coming ... they just don't know when, where and how. And their war, in the middle ... is aimed at destroying their civilization to the point, that they do not pose as a threat.
Understanding this, you also have to realize ... there are no depths, and no lengths to where your administration and any following administration is willing to go.
After realizing this, then maybe you'll have a different view of looking at these facts.
Writing in the New Republic, Graeme Wood compellingly classifies the three different types of ISIS fighters, including a cooperative of Western poseurs (Psychopaths) and committed zealots (True Believers). If there's any silver lining to be had, it's that what Wood calls the largest contingent of ISIS fighters doesn't seem particularly committed to the cause.
Call them the Sunni Pragmatists. These people include Iraqi tribal sheikhs, whose allegiance to ISIS originates not in a cultish death wish but in a desire to win security and well-being, and who seem to be using the Psychopaths and the True Believers as convenient allies. From ISIS, the Pragmatists get a way to punish Baghdad for its long neglect of Sunni regions."
Nevertheless, that new number is certainly alarming.