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Trump orders the CIA to halt all financial, military aid for rebels in Syria
2017-07-20
Oh my -- the Decider deciding.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Over six years after the Syrian revolt first began, the US administration has finally decided to indefinitely give up on its long-standing support for supposedly moderate rebel groups in the war-torn country.

According to US officials, Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train forces of Evil opposed to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA). This arming program was put into effect by the B.O. regime in 2013 and looked to topple Bashir al-Assad.

After talks with Russia, the White House will now phase out the secret program, a move which is likely to have grave implications for US-vetted Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) factions based in southern Syria around the al-Tanf border crossing.

Although the CIA declined to comment, US officials told the Washington Post that Trump decided to scrap the CIA program nearly a month ago ahead of a meeting on July 7 with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
. "This is a momentous decision ... Putin won in Syria," said a current official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a covert program.

"It’s probably a nod to reality," said Ilan Goldenberg, a former B.O. regime official and director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security.

Once this sudden change of policy is fully implemented, al-Masdar News expects the US Army will evacuate its troops from the al-Tanf military base and fly them to Kurdish-held territory in Hasakah, thereby leaving rebel forces in southern Syria to fend for themselves against the SAA.

The plan does not involve the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led fighting force in northern Syria which has had its supply of heavy weapons and armored vehicles increased in recent months.

Posted by:Fred

#4  What will ISIS do for weapons now?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-07-20 13:31  

#3  The Benghazi warehouses are finally emptied?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-20 07:48  

#2  >Putin won in Syria
No! Sense won. Obama's plan for ethnic cleansing lost.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-07-20 05:38  

#1  The plan does not involve the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led fighting force in northern Syria which has had its supply of heavy weapons and armored vehicles increased in recent months.

That's reassuring.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-07-20 00:19  

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