US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

[Spoonman]

Can anyone tell me why we are giving aid to rebels and terrorists when we are cutting SS and medicare from our own seniors?

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the Assad government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.

The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.

U.S. officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerry's announcement.

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

 

[Spoonman]

 

[paulitician]

Can anyone tell me why we are giving aid to rebels and terrorists when we are cutting SS and medicare from our own seniors?

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the Assad government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.

The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.

U.S. officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerry's announcement.

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

Looks like their 'Sequester' fear mongering really was all Bullshite. They seem to have plenty of Taxpayer Cash to fund Al Qaeda-linked 'Rebels' in Libya, Egypt, and Syria. What a mess. Blowback is gonna be brutal for us at some point. Should have listened to the good Doctor Paul, and adopted a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy. Only the MIC and NWO Global Elite will benefit from these interventions.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Can anyone tell me why we are giving aid to rebels and terrorists when we are cutting SS and medicare from our own seniors?

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the Assad government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.

The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.

U.S. officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerry's announcement.

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

If obama authorizes aid I wounder if he's ready to go to jail for violating the law he signed and I also wonder if the American people are prepared to make sure he goes to jail?

 

[Spoonman]

Can anyone tell me why we are giving aid to rebels and terrorists when we are cutting SS and medicare from our own seniors?

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the Assad government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.

The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.

U.S. officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerry's announcement.

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

Looks like their 'Sequester' fear mongering really was all Bullshite. They seem to have plenty of Taxpayer Cash to fund Al Qaeda-linked 'Rebels' in Libya, Egypt, and Syria. What a mess. Blowback is gonna be brutal for us at some point. Should have listened to the good Doctor Paul, and adopted a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy. Only the MIC and NWO Global Elite will benefit from these interventions.

it really is time for America first

 

[Spoonman]

Can anyone tell me why we are giving aid to rebels and terrorists when we are cutting SS and medicare from our own seniors?

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the Assad government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.

The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.

U.S. officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerry's announcement.

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

If obama authorizes aid I wounder if he's ready to go to jail for violating the law he signed and I also wonder if the American people are prepared to make sure he goes to jail?

Americans probably are, however we have a lot of liberals here, and they sure as hell aren't

 

[Locke11_21]

Can anyone tell me why we are giving aid to rebels and terrorists when we are cutting SS and medicare from our own seniors?

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the Assad government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.

The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.

U.S. officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerry's announcement.

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

If obama authorizes aid I wounder if he's ready to go to jail for violating the law he signed and I also wonder if the American people are prepared to make sure he goes to jail?

If Obama authorizes it, who is gonna prosecute him? Eric Dickholder? Yeahhh. Will anyone in the house do anything as long as the cowardly lion is Speaker of the House? Nope. Obama can get away with anything he wants.

 

[paulitician]

The People have no say in the Foreign Aid issue. Big Brother just hands it out as he sees fit. Government no longer serves the People, now it only serves itself. These 'Rebel' groups is Libya, Egypt, and Syria, have Al Qaeda Terrorist-links. We will surely regret funding them at some point. Blowback will be fierce and brutal. The American Politicians who gave them the Money & Arms, should one day be arrested & prosecuted.

 

[waltky]

CIA sneakin' weapons to the Syrian rebels through the back door...

CIA preparing to deliver rebels arms through Turkey and Jordan
June 15, 2013, WASHINGTON — The CIA is preparing to deliver arms to rebel groups in Syria through clandestine bases in Turkey and Jordan that were expanded over the past year in an effort to establish reliable supply routes into the country for non-lethal material, U.S. officials said.

The bases are expected to begin conveying limited shipments of weapons and ammunition within weeks, officials said, serving as critical nodes for an escalation of U.S. involvement in a civil war that has lately seen a shift in momentum toward the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Syria experts cautioned that the opposition to Assad remains a chaotic mix of secular and Islamist elements, highlighting the risk that some American-provided munitions may be diverted from their intended recipients.

But U.S. officials involved in the planning of the new arms shipments announced by the Obama administration this Thursday said that the CIA has developed a clearer understanding of the composition of rebel forces, which have begun to coalesce in recent months. Within the past year, the CIA also created a new office at its headquarters in Langley to oversee its expanding operational role in Syria. "We have relationships today in Syria that we didn't have six months ago," Benjamin Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said during a White House briefing on Friday. The United States is capable of delivering material "not only into the country," Rhodes said, but "into the right hands."

Members of Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, and Combat Logistics Battalion 24 construct a base camp near Petra Jordan on May 5, 2012, in preparation for Exercise Eager Lion 12, a recurring, multinational exercise designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships.

The confidence conveyed by Rhodes' statement is in contrast to the concerns expressed by U.S. intelligence officials last year that the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies were still struggling to gain a firm understanding of opposition elements — a factor cited at the time as a reason the Obama administration was unwilling to consider providing arms. "The Syrian puzzle has come into sharper focus in the past year, especially the make-up of various anti-regime groups," said a U.S. official familiar with CIA assessments of the conflict. "And while the opposition remains far from monolithic, its military structures and coordination processes have improved." The official, like most others interviewed for this article, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence assessments and planning.

The increased certainty is one of several factors that led to the reversal of a U.S. policy against providing lethal aid that had been in place since the civil war erupted in Syria more than two years ago. Rhodes said the change was driven by a new determination by U.S. intelligence agencies that Assad's regime had used chemical weapons, including sarin gas, on at least four separate occasions. Obama also faced mounting pressure to intervene more aggressively as members of Congress and overseas allies became increasingly alarmed that Assad's forces were gaining strength with expanded assistance from Russia and Iran. For the CIA, the shift on Syria marks a return to a covert action role that was familiar to the agency during Cold War-era conflicts, but gave way to increasingly direct lethal operations as the agency's drone campaign surged in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The agency's mission in Syria carries substantial risks, including a longstanding fear that arms could fall into the hands of extremists who may seek to impose Salafist rule in Syria or turn those weapons against targets in Israel and other Western countries. That concern accounts for initial limits imposed by Obama that will allow the delivery of rifles and other munitions, but not — at least for now — antitank or anti-aircraft weapons that rebels have desperately sought. Obama's decision to approve CIA weapons shipments, spelled out in an updated covert action finding recently signed by the president, may also signal that the administration is now prepared to endorse the delivery of heavier arms by regional allies.

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Syria: Sunni extremists blow up Shiite mosque
June 16, 2013 — Sunni extremists blew up a Shiite mosque in a village in eastern Syria stormed by rebels earlier this week, another sign of the growing sectarian hatred in the country's civil war, activists said Sunday.

They said al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria carried out the destruction. It showed the determination of extremists to drive Shiites out of the village of Hatla in the Deir el-Zour region near Iraq. Last week rebels battled pro-regime militiamen there, killing more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians, according to activists. In Lebanon, gunmen deployed in the streets of the northeast and set up roadblocks in protest following the killing of four Lebanese Shiite men in an ambush, security officials said Sunday. The security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the four were found dead in the Wadi Rafeq area between Ras Baalbek and al-Qaa near the border with Syria.

They said the men were from the powerful Jaafar and Amhaz clans, triggering fears of retaliation. It was not immediately clear how they were killed or what the motive was, but Sunday's ambush is believed to be related to sectarian tensions related to the Syrian civil war. Tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon increased after the Shiite Iranian-backed Hezbollah openly joined the fight in Syria on the side of President Bashar Assad. Most Sunnis in Lebanon support the mostly Sunni rebels fighting to oust Assad. In amateur videos of the mosque destruction in Syria, fighters walked into the mosque in Hatla and trampled on books, some with covers showing pictures of Shiite clerics. The videos then showed an explosion that brought down the building.

Sunday's video posted on the Internet appeared genuine and corresponded with other Associated Press reporting from the area. Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the mosque was demolished Friday, three days after the battle. Other videos that emerged earlier have showed rebels cursing Shiites and suggested fighters had burned Shiite homes. "It's clear that they want to root out Hatla's Shiite inhabitants," he told The Associated Press. The town is home to several thousand people, about 30 percent of them Shiites. It was considered a pro-regime community in the Euphrates River valley, where rebels — including the al-Qaida-linked group Jabhat el-Nusra — have taken over much of the surrounding territory.

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[tinydancer]

I'm really trying not to freak out here.

We're funding Al Qaeda?

 

[tinydancer]

The People have no say in the Foreign Aid issue. Big Brother just hands it out as he sees fit. Government no longer serves the People, now it only serves itself. These 'Rebel' groups is Libya, Egypt, and Syria, have Al Qaeda Terrorist-links. We will surely regret funding them at some point. Blowback will be fierce and brutal. The American Politicians who gave them the Money & Arms, should one day be arrested & prosecuted.

NONONONONONO

This has to be stopped now. Now. They are giving AQ weapons knowingly. What the hell are they doing?

 

[Clementine]

I wouldn't offer a glass of water to anyone who is part of al Qaeda. Obama is making it clear who he stands with and it isn't Americans.

 

[TemplarKormac]

This government has lost all pretenses of sanity. They know (or not) full well that the Syrian rebels have sworn fealty to Al-Qaeda.

 

[jon_berzerk]

I'm really trying not to freak out here.

We're funding Al Qaeda?

yes