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US special forces sabotage covert training mission in Syria
[FortunasCorner] "Nobody believes in it. You're like, "Fuck this,'" a former Green Beret says of America's covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. "Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort, and they know they are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, "Fuck it, who cares?'"Yea, ok. Find yourself on the wrong team? Being used? No bloody sympathy for you, my brother. You signed up for Goldwater-Nichols in 1986 (separate budget from big Army). Sucked up to Foggy Bottom, the Country Team, money, guns and gear, along with every Klingon MTT and half-step mission that came along. So now eat it! No sympathy for Klingon Para-Mil nugs either. After 30+ years of red headed step child, what do you still not understand? You should have stayed on active duty. Get a real job, losers. The author hit the DZ with the last sentence. Great article by the way. Excellent find and a hat tip to VRWC for posting. There, I said it. "I don't want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans," the Green Beret added. A second Special Forces soldier commented that one Syrian militia they had trained recently crossed the border from Jordan on what had been pitched as a large-scale shaping operation that would change the course of the war. Watching the battle on a monitor while a drone flew overhead, "We literally watched them, with 30 guys in their force, run away from three or four ISIS guys." Another militia commander came back to Jordan to be debriefed by CIA case officers stationed at Damascus X, the exiled CIA station now located in Amman, Jordan, since departing Syria's capital after the civil war began. The Syrian proxy broke down saying that he might as well join ISIS-something the case officer had to talk him out of. But perhaps this was a step in the right direction from a the recent past, when the commander of the now-defunct Syrian Revolutionary Front came in for a debriefing, telling his CIA handler that a helicopter was shot down and destroyed some of his equipment but he also claimed that he had an expensive suit onboard the aircraft that the CIA also needed to replace. http://www.menswearhouse.com/CIA While the press has reported extensively on the over 100 armed groups within Syria vying for control, and the occasional report comes out about U.S. special operations troops in Syria and wasteful spending on covert action programs, the wider story about the U.S. Special Forces arming Syrian anti-ISIS forces while the CIA conducts a parallel program to arm anti-Assad regime forces has yet to be told-until now. It is a story of fraud, waste, and abuse, as well as bureaucratic infighting and a disgusting excess, which has only contributed to perpetuating the Syrian conflict. Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-09-21 |
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