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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Pentagon: US training for Syrian rebels moving slower than expected

2015-06-19

[Ynet] The US effort to build a moderate Syrian opposition force that can stand up to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
rebels is moving more slowly than expected due to complications vetting volunteers and bringing them out of Syria for training, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Bummer.

Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense Department front man, said between 100 and 200 Syrian fighters were undergoing training in the region, while hundreds more were still being screened or waiting to be brought out of the country. "As of now, none have completed training," Warren said.

Posted by:trailing wife

#9 As per #8, so under the Bammer the US is once again "attackatreating" in Iraq???

Well there ya go - the smell of Victory in the Mornin'.

Oh, wait ...

* TOPIX > GENERAL VALLELY: US WON'T GET 24,000 IRAQIS TO FIGHT/BATTLE ISIS.

Something has to significantly change iff the Bammer Admin = USA expects its current policies to prevail or succeed agz the ISIS/ISIL.

* WORLD NEWS > [USNWR] OBAMA PLAN TO DEFEAT ISIS WON'T SUCCEED, EXPERTS SAY.

It taint enuff to win, sezzes the US Pentagon + Other.

* PAYVAND NEWS > IRAN VP WARNS OF SPREAD OF EXTREMISM BEYOND THE MIDDLE EAST, iff the US-Allies/West fail to contain or defeat it in Iraq.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Sputnik] US PENTAGON SAYS IRAQ LIKELY TO BE SPLIT INTO THREE [Sovereign]STATES, as in contrance to the Bammer's stated desire to keep Iraq whole.

SURRENDER NOW, ALL YE FEDERALISTS WHOM ENTER HERE!

* SAME > US HOUSE REJECTS MEASURE [288-139 HR vote] TO PULL OUT ALL US TROOPS [3,500 tote] FROM IRAQ IN 30 DAYS, or in altern by EOY 2015.

VERSUS

* BIGNEWSNETWORK, TOPIX > [Telegraph.UK] CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: THERE IS MILITARY STRATEGY AGZ THE ISLAMIC STATE - THIS IS IT, FORGET ABOUT SUPPORTING BAGHDAD AND [Re-]TRAINING IRAQI ARMY, WE MUST PROMOTE [give = push] MORE ASSETS TO OUR REAL ALLIES WHOM CAN WIN [Unilaterally-Asymetrically agz the ISIS/isil, AQ] ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

E.g. the hard-fighting, ISIS/ISIL-defeating Kurds, + stalwart Jordan, for starters.

* PAYVAND NEWS > THE NEW WORLD ORDER REBOOTED.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [US DepState] US REFUSES TO GIVE OSAMA BIN LADEN'S SON [Abdullah] DEATH CERTIFICATE FOR EX-AL QAEDA LEADER.

No DC = the US Govt. officially "cannot confirm or deny" Osama is actually dead.

ZOOOOOOOMG, MAYBE MY FORMER AFGHAN WAR ASSOCIATE/CO-HORT OSAMA IS SSSHHH ...PCCCCC ALIVE + LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES???

OR RIDING THE GUAM MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM LIKE JAPANESE-CHINESE NINJAS???

Sigh, so many BURN Notices, Not enuff Mangos.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-06-19 23:17

#8 In Woody Allen's flic "Bananas" there is a 'revolution' in a Central American 'republic. U.S.A.sends a planeful of battle geared CIA sponsored U.S. soldiers. Their leader sez that 'this time'we're going to do it right! Half of us will fight for the revolution and other half against!'

Fiction becomes Non-fiction

Posted by: borgboy 2015-06-19 17:57

#7 Which is why it will never happen, OS.

Posted by: DarthVader 2015-06-19 16:06

#6 expected by whom? This is the military training people that STATE DEPT picked out. Stop this and take all that money and give it as equipment to the Peshmerga. They know how to train and they have proven they can fight and kill ISIS quite proficiently.

Posted by: OldSpook 2015-06-19 15:08

#5 ...parentage are cloudy, and multiple names have been used.

And this is my other brother, Mohammed.

Hey, are these guys we are training in Syria the same guys we are kinda sorta trying to kill on the other side of the border in Iraq?

Posted by: SteveS 2015-06-19 14:17

#4 "Unexpectedly"

Posted by: DarthVader 2015-06-19 09:59

#3 Problem with personnel screening? Maybe you might check with the Chinese since they seem to have acquired everyone's personnel files.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-19 08:11

#2 Personnel 'screening' is made infinitely more difficult when little is known about the applicant, academic and travel records are unavailable, place of birth data and parentage are cloudy, and multiple names have been used.

I feel your pain COL Warren.

Posted by: Besoeker 2015-06-19 05:09

#1 USA training Al-Qaeda affiliates to fight ISIS---which, some claim, USA trained & equipped through Turkish/Saudi proxies. Marvelous are the ways of affirmative action.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-19 02:38

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