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2013-09-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Report: US-Trained Fighters Sneaking Into Syria

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-03 09:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Klingons pulled out of Afghanistan and Benghazi, now at work again in Jordon and Turkey? How long do we wait until we see a few of these desperate lads captured and marched before Al Jazeera cameras? No "boots on the ground" of course.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-03 10:01|| 2013-09-03 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought they were talking about training indigenous personnel, who would swallow their cyanide molar before saying who trained them.

Posted by Bobby 2013-09-03 11:27|| 2013-09-03 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 So it's OK for the CIA to train rebels to make war against Assad...But if Assad gasses a few of these rebels it's NOT OK. I get it. But then, it was OK for Saddam to gas Iranians. Hmmmm. Now I'm confused.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-03 11:34|| 2013-09-03 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny, another source stated the US/Jordanian-trained rebels had begun infiltrating Syria back in early August.

Posted by Pappy 2013-09-03 11:43|| 2013-09-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Middle East Secular Regimes vs Islamic Regimes.

Obvious who US President Hussein supports.

Posted by Alistaire Poodle4429 2013-09-03 11:57|| 2013-09-03 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Funny, another source stated the US/Jordanian-trained rebels had begun infiltrating Syria back in early August.

You mean like right about the time of the gas attack?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-03 12:11|| 2013-09-03 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 What a coincidence...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-03 13:04|| 2013-09-03 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Bay of 'no pigs'?

Posted by airandee 2013-09-03 13:25|| 2013-09-03 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 What a coincidence...

Possibly.

Open sources reported rebel troops being trained in Jordan as early as March 2013.

The early August operations were conducted by mainly Islamist forces beginning August 4th , though the assault was being attributed to the FSA.

The Jerusalem Post has the US/Jordanian trained rebels moving into Syria around August 17. Debka places the activity about the same time, with the rebel forces engaging in immediate operations and the sarin attack as a result.

Two weeks isn't much of a deviation, considering the Syrian war's been going on over two years and intel is spotty from there.

Posted by Pappy 2013-09-03 14:08|| 2013-09-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#10 May get even 'spottier' if the UK tells us to pi** off.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-03 14:20|| 2013-09-03 14:20|| Front Page Top

#11 KLA rerun.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-03 14:33|| 2013-09-03 14:33|| Front Page Top

#12 No boots on the ground? How about flipflops?

Posted by Snosh Flomomp6315 2013-09-03 16:43|| 2013-09-03 16:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, it's a good bet obooboo is "spotting" while he waits to see if congress will make him look even worse in this mess than he does right now...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-03 17:07|| 2013-09-03 17:07|| Front Page Top

#14 The Palin Doctrine
On U.S. military intervention in Syria's civil war, where "both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line 'Allahu akbar' ... I say let Allah sort it out."

So said Sarah Palin to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. And, as is not infrequently the case, she nailed it.

Posted by tipper 2013-09-03 21:57|| 2013-09-03 21:57|| Front Page Top

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