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US Paradrops 50 Tons Of Ammo To Syrian Rebels
As we noted over the weekend, the US has now thrown in the towel on the ill-fated (and that’s putting it lightly) strategy of training Syrian fighters and sending them into battle only to be captured and killed by other Syrian fighters who the US also trained.
The Pentagon’s effort to recruit 5,400 properly “vetted” anti-ISIS rebels by the end of the year ended in tears when the entire world laughed until it cried after word got out that only “four or five” of these fighters were actually still around. The rest are apparently either captured, killed, lost in the desert, or fighting for someone else.
This has cost the US taxpayer somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 million over the last six months.
Because this latest program was such a public embarrassment, the Pentagon had to come up with a new idea to assist Syria’s “freedom fighters” now that they are fleeing under bombardment by the Russian air force only to be cut down by Hezbollah.
The newest plan: helicopter ammo. No, really. The US has now resorted to dropping "tons" of ammo into the middle of nowhere and hoping the “right” people find it.
No, really.
Here’s CNN:
U.S. military cargo planes gave 50 tons of ammunition to rebel groups overnight in northern Syria, using an air drop of 112 pallets as the first step in the Obama Administration's urgent effort to find new ways to support those groups.
Details of the air mission over Syria were confirmed by a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly because the details have not yet been formally announced.
C-17s, accompanied by fighter escort aircraft, dropped small arms ammunition and other items like hand grenades in Hasakah province in northern Syria to a coalition of rebels groups vetted by the US, known as the Syrian Arab Coalition.
And here's a bit more color from GOP mouthpiece Fox News:
The ammunition originally was intended for the U.S. military's "train and equip" mission, the official said. But that program was canceled last week.
"So now we are more focused on the 'E' [equip] part of the T&E [train & equip]," said the official, who described equipping Syrian Arabs as the focus of the new strategy against ISIS.
The Defense Department announced Friday that it was overhauling the mission to aid Syrian rebel fighters. After the program fell far short of its goals for recruiting and training Syrian fighters, the DOD said it would focus instead on providing "equipment packages and weapons to a select group of vetted leaders and their units so that over time they can make a concerted push into territory still controlled by ISIL."
The shift also comes as Russia continues to launch airstrikes in Syria, causing tension with the U.S. amid suspicions Moscow is only trying to prop up Bashar Assad.
Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, confirmed that coalition forces conducted the airdrop on Sunday.
"The aircraft delivery includes small arms ammunition to resupply counter-ISIL ground forces so that they can continue operations against ISIL. All aircraft exited the drop area safely," he said in a statement. All pallets successfully were recovered by friendly forces, a U.S. official said.
Yes, “friendly forces.”
Just let the hilarity of that sink in.
The US just paradropped 50 tons of ammo on pallets into the most dangerous place on the face of the planet with no way of ensuring that it falls into the "right" hands (it goes without saying that the term "right" is meaningless there). Meanwhile, the Russians are dropping bombs on the same extremists who are set to receive the guns the US is dropping.
Of course if it does somehow fall into the “wrong” hands, it wouldn’t be the first time (see Mosul and recall the $500 billion worth of weapons Washington “misplaced” in Yemen) and as we said a few days ago, this is at least great news for the military-industrial complex. It means more "terrorist attacks" on U.S. "friends and allies", and perhaps even on U.S. soil - all courtesy of the US government supplying the weapons - are imminent.
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Bet the Saudis are paying for all this.
Saudis, Qataris and the Emirates. Saudis keep it up and Ras Tanura will go up in flames.
Saudis are paying for a lot these days. They have just ponied up about 1 billion euro for the 2 Mistrals that France has 'sold' to Egypt.
Sounds like they are pulling out the old Afghanistan/Mujhadeen manuals at Langley.
Considering the cost of living is so low there, why would it cost $40 million to train less than 6000 people?
They probably stopped accepting Federal reserve notes, so they lost a fair bit converting to the gold currency ISIS is using.
Where's the GAO when you need them, where's the itemized spending bill?
next time obama will make a saving by delivering the weapons he will have previously taken from the people.
For the first time in my life I am truly embarrassed to call myself an American. Does anyone making these decision have two brain cells to rub together? Next time there’s a school shooting, instead of sending in SWAT, just drop a few AR-15’s into the school yard and “hope they fall into the right hands".
Stupid doesn’t even begin to describe these people.
Meanwhile, US legislators are feverishly trying to come up with some way to appease the gun-grabbers and further restrict responsible firearm owner's access to both weapons and, of course, ammunition.
While we throw away literally tons of both in foreign countries. Worse, 'our' raping, beheading 'allies' might get their hands on it. And some of it might eventually find its way back here courtesy of some jihadi, to be used on the taxpayers who paid for it.
Brzezinski's 'Grand Chessboard' is being upended, the pieces scattered and holes shot through it. And none of it had to happen.
I was thinking this was like the dropping of manna from heaven...whoops...wrong religion...
Hopefully the ammo includes some MANPADs for trashing those pesky Russian airraft.
Such a cunt you are supporting terrorists
Yeah, because Russia don't have it's own version of the above, plus it can effectively seal off skies of Syria with their s-300 and s-400 systems delivered to Syrian government. Just curious, you do suggest risking Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, etc. skies for the sake of spiting Russia in Syria? You must be fresh outta West Point...
Your support of terrorists is costly, wrong and morally repugnant.
Yo-mutti. Is that, like, yo-momma? how gangsta of you! you must be sucha cock-of-the-block.
The Russians shouldpick up the ammunition with their helicopters protected by their jets during the process. Give all the ammunitions to the assad side and therefore use the US's weapons on their so called ISIS and moderates. Then send a big thank you to the US.THen tell them they cannot wait for the next free shipment.
Now that would be the news I would like to hear on CNN.
You can be sure Russia is tracking the flights and drops of every NATO craft. Russia may even use this as bait. Or a least track where these are move to for future targeting.
In related news, the Roman fifth caravanned into Constantinople nearly MCXX bronze swords for use by the Judean Peoples Front. Due to poor semantics of A centurion from Naples, the arms were received by officials from the People Front of Judea instead, two of whom suffered injuries sorting out which end is which. The Optio of the Syrian province is expected to ask Rome for nearly IVC Dinarii to ensure the safety of what civilians they deem "friendly".
This has been going on for a while...
+100 MP reference
Obama got testy last night when Kroft asked him about Putin's leadership. Obama does not like being compared with a man
Michele can't help it she's bigger.
https://wtpotus.wordpress.com/photos/michelle-obama-bulge-in-the-wrong-s...
Brings to mind Mom jeans
Did Christmas come early for Assad and his troops, thanks to the US? This is not a threat, but an opportunity...
All that Syrian and Russian forces need to do, is to either secure this arms drop for themselves, or blow it up when ISIS members come to retrieve it.
Of course Russians will want Syrian ground troops (driven there or parachuted in) to secure it, lest the US has booby-trapped them and thus to prevent loss of Russian ground forces (who may want to stand out of range, while vetting for booby traps is performed).
Then rinse and repeat with each US resupply. Taking this concept to its logical extreme (reducto ad absurdum): "Now if they only started making similar drop offs within the US", some might say..
This is just fucking bullshit. The so-called moderate rebel groups, if they do exist, do not use the ammo to fight ISIS. And the US knows it. Why so many people believe the goddamn media in this country is beyond me. Until the government admits their support for ISIS itself, I guess all we get is propaganda. If this country goes in the shitter this mainstream media will be a big reason why.
Great, the US is looking at banning assault style weapons in the US while dropping ammo, grenades and weapons in aerial drops into one of the most violent countries in the world.
Somehow this is supposed to bolster efforts at peace in the region.
Of course most of these weapons will be purchased off the recipients by ISIS.
It makes one wonder why there are hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees into Europe with a Nobel peace prize winner busy restoring peace and re-building the middle east.
Perhaps given the free weapons falling from the sky it would pay to stay so you could establish yourself as an arms dealer selling free US weapons to ISIS.
maybe mccains stingers.
stinger to go or so.
and the civil aviation company are woorried abot a few cruise missile cruisin low altitude ......
ah i forgot hardcore russian cruise missiles, not the fluffy us stingers....
Zionist war agenda
What would Israel's agenda be... survival against a few hundred million jihadi Muslims ?
dear vlad, please use your new jamming systems and drop pallets of guns 'n ammo to amuricans!
Our Pentagon. You just can't FIX Stupid.
Oh FFS! That is like a declaration of war on Russia and Iran. Although I expect the real shoosting to begin in China on Thursday.
How did they drop that much schwag if Putin has a de facto No Fly Zone?
Slim Pickens is the pilot.
Yeeeeee-Hawwwww!
Why does anyone think these people are stupid? They aren't, chaos and civil war is their goal and always have been.
Dick Cheney said in the 90s that if you took out Saddam Iraq would split apart, its on youtube.
So we can see that is what they want, they want to balkanize and they want that for America too which is why Obama pushes all the racial crap and right/left junk.
It is easier to control disarmed small states.
There is no stupid here, it is the Jewish agenda of the destruction of nation states.
Stupidity and hidden agendas aren't mutually exclusive. You'd have a hard time convincing me any of our recent puppet presidents are brilliant.
It was really bad idea from their side because spending money in these key is equal to burning 'em and yourself in fire by using gasoline.
I mean it sure will be at hand of ISIS so we just will blow it up. Then Bzezinski (or how it writing correct) and Soros will mad again and new "sanctions" against Russia begin.
What a pile of shit and guts, gentlemen!
Really, it doesn't worth of it. Better to use these money for social, educational, etc. programmes. But NO. Shitbags use it for war.
At this point it appears the USSA gives two shits about WHO actually finds it as long as the MIC gets paid by the taxpayer.....
This is gonna end real well.
(I'm thinkin', some of my tax money goes to pay the salaries of the idiot fuckhead moron assholes that come up with these ideas.)
My apologies to idiot fuckhead moron assholes everywhere. You're way better.
This is a joke, right?
Putin must be just laughing at this embarassing and desperate farce. Is Wiley Coyote working for the Pentagon now?
If CNN is letting us know about it then they are playing us in some way with this information.
Reason #1. Don't send your Goy kids over seas. Reason #2, Patriotism in today's existence is a lie.
Russia might keep an eye on the drop zone to see who shows up and then light them up. That would be something.
Should to be interesting film. Will wait on YT broadcast.
We all know who would be watching....
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2015...
Sure it is. Emotionally it might be like this:
https://youtu.be/1W7c8QghPxk
Peak Stupidity
Someone really should to make Barack Husseinovich (funnier than it seems) one of Dota characters. False-support class with ability to hit only weaponless mobs. Perfection compared with his humorous use.
no.
as the saying goes:
do a prayer that it will not turn worse.
and i did a prayer and it turned worse.
Obama has turned this country into the laughingstock of the world.
There was a question recently about the abundance of Toyota Hilux trucks in videos of ISIS fighters.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/october/...
Recently, when the US State Department resumed sending non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels, the delivery list included 43 Toyota trucks.
Hiluxes were on the Free Syrian Army’s wish list. Oubai Shahbander, a Washington-based advisor to the Syrian National Coalition, is a fan of the truck.
“Specific equipment like the Toyota Hiluxes are what we refer to as force enablers for the moderate opposition forces on the ground,” he adds. Shahbander says the US-supplied pickups will be delivering troops and supplies into battle. Some of the fleet will even become battlefield weapons.
Oh, almost forgot that Ukies asking for weaponry every day since Crimean "annexation". That's just funny to watch how they has been fucked up in their wishes again.
in other (german) news us is planning to collect and arm a curds/saud army.
wonder how that works with incirlik.
no false flag needed, this thing is boiling steadily into a full blown war
same as it ever was
Maybe the Pentagon thought they would get out ahead of the Federal Reserve in the paradrop category?
SU-24 pilot: "Hey American in the C-17, hurry up and drop your shit. I'm low on fuel and only have 2 more bombs to drop on your shit.....:
Where's our free guns?
In pharallel reality with curious events in the US, probably. Where ol' Arnie become the President of USA Austria.
"The aircraft delivery includes small arms ammunition to resupply counter-ISIL ground forces so that they can continue operations against ISIL."
I must be f***ing confused man. I thought we were funding these terrorist.... I mean moderate rebels to fight agaist the mass butcher Assad. Now we are claiming the guns & ammo is intended to help them fight ISIS? Who is fighting who? Wouldn't it be simpler to just give the Russians a weeks notice then carpet nuke the place?
Is this an attempt to make the idea of giving guns and ammo to Islamic lunatics more palatable?
WTF?!
The MSM has recently [last 3 days] started removing Assad as the enemy from "reports" and subsituting "ISIS" as the enemy. A simple search and replace. I'm not joking, check stories from Reuters, NYT, AP, AFP. Started around Friday or so. I guess they got the "talking points".
The US F-16 lost over Bosnia (Pilot,O'Grady) was knocked down in a bizarre stratagem.
The jet was tracked by a distant radar that the AWAC's had designated as not a threat.
Position data from this "distant" radar was transmitted over LOS microwave links to a SAM
site directly under the aircraft.The missle was fired blind,no active homing seeker,using the location
data.The missles radar turned on when it was a half kilometer or so from the aircraft,no time for
evasive maneuvers by the pilot,or chaff discharge.The pilot was very lucky as the expanding rod
warhead sawed the aircraft in half right behind the cockpit,just missing the ejection seat mechanism.
It should be remembered that the nose was sheared off an airliner (TWA 008?) in a similar manner
over Long Island Sound.But they put it down to a fuel tank explosion,that the mfgr could not replicate.
The FAA fellow spent several hours unconvincingly describing the multiple sightings of smoke trails
as mass hysteria.Nothing in the world leaves evidence like an expanding rod warhead.
N.B. TWA 008 had a dozen US students going to France to practice their french language skills.
N.B. The GermanyAir flight which was flown into a mountainside had a dozen German students who
had been practicing their Spanish language skills in Barcelona,before returning home to Dusseldorf.
Someone,somewhere is responsible for these tragic,unnecessary deaths.
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The alien space craft that landed in Roswell New Mexico was carrying the ashes of Adolf Hitler and the ships helm from the Titanic. When the alien bodies were recovered, one suddenly jumped to his feet and recited the Magna Carta in Japanese. At this time, a US Army general arrived upon the scene and smeared mayonaisse upon everything and comanded his troops to "drop and have a picnic. That is a direct order"
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Whatever the wholesale cost per pallet of ammo the US TAX payer just paid it x100. MIC is happy.
so confused ISIS back on that name... What happened to ISIL Al-Cia-Duh..... Shhh Russia has a MIC too.. Wonder if Mconell's in law ships will be able to use the large Chinese Panama Canal? Can't make this stuff up... Shhh cloud and social are going to punish cyber bullies... Well the 5 ISIS is probably better than the one FISA judge...
I'M so happy that Saudi's are on UN human rights commission...
"Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline"
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Russia just handed ISIS a 'big win' in Syria's largest city
Pamela Engel
Oct. 9, 2015, 1:12 PM 68,075 43
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REALITY CHECK: Russian bombing in Syria is actually helping ISIS
Putin is now pushing Assad's darkly cynical master plan in Syria
Russia is giving al Qaeda in Syria a big boost
The terror group ISIS made gains near Syria's largest city in the last 24 hours, aided by Russian airstrikes that drove other groups out.
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Russias "bombing" of "rebels" is doing a REALLY GREAT job!
See the latest strategic maps showing how ISIS is grabbing land and advancing like never before. Excellent job Pooty!
https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5617edc4bd86ef185c8b593c-6103-...
Yes, in real life, the Russina are fuking up royally, helping ISIS advance easily.
But in the ZH alternate universe, they are humanitarian hereoes :)
Come on, all you guys in the Russian Troll House... Aren't you depressed that only the dumbest Americans are falling for the act?
Did you blessed by "holy" Obama's piss?
It's just look like that.
Did you get a D+ in your last English class?
What the matter, my word hurting you little dirty pig?
You words would be painful to anybody who is accumstomed to hearing English spoken correctly.
Really? You should to get lost then.
Piss off scum. There's no plase for insects like you.
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Boy you sure did a great job proving his point...
Lol...
And you proving you as anus licker every time you commenting in threads about Russia, Syria etc.
Who cares anyway?
Yes, just what you expect from Putin's Russia - Insect. No place for you.
But they're not facists... really they're not :)
For what it is worth mate, I understood you perfectly, and English is my first language.
The truth will always come out . . . eventually.
Keep telling it.
"You words would be painful ... "?
You're just another dumb GCHQ tea boy, aren't you?
accumstomed?
vy gavariti pa-angliski?
Good. Russia deserves to win, and the US Slavemasters deserve to be destroyed.
Did you see the map of ISIS advancing in the last 24 hours?
Why has ISIS been the most succesful since the Russians showed up and started bombing? Hmm... Maybe because ISIS belongs to Putin? Oh my.
Drop some ammo to the Kurds .... they know what to do with it .... and some for Kobane, perhaps ?
That ammo need to Assad's troops...
... Oh wait, I finally get it. I get why they dropped 50 tons.
Half of it belong to Asad actually , other half to terrorists. But, when we (Russians) are there, then all "humanitarian help" belongs to Assad.
Hey... i've got a brilliant idea.
Kurd Kobane?
Once again we have outsmarted them. Duh...
it doesn't matter who finds the weapons - defense contractor profits are what count. The American people have unlimited money to pay for this - just print the money and push off the debt to the next generation. We have to prop up the stock market or the whole world will blow up -just like in 2008 - We have to support Wall Street. The whole system is about to blow up again. If we don't, the Russians will destroy the Freedom Fighters in Syria and iran will certainly acqira nuclear bomb in the next 6 months and detroy Israel.
>The American people have unlimited money to pay for this
Everything is limited, including money.
Federal Reserve Notes in electronic form are unlimited because they come out of thin air. There is no end to their "money".
So why are we all on the hook for this electronic fraud in the form of generational debt through the "government" and its debt?
Once again. EVERYTHING. IS. LIMITED.
Without energy for electronics your virtual cents are no more than ashes.
Energy cannot be unlimited because resources needed for its "live" have a limit in quantity.
Bearing in mind that Russian economy is a disaster. We can now all come to terms with how Putin is doing his best to destroy I mean make it better...
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Russia has spent at least $87 million in the first two weeks of its bombing campaign in Syria
Rough estimates suggest that Moscow has spent at least $87 million for air and cruise-missile strikes in the first two weeks of its bombing campaign in Syria that began September 30.
But Sutyagin, who follows the Russian military closely, estimates that the air strikes by conventional fighter jets cost at least some $2.5 million per day.
That figure covers maintenance of a force of 34 airplanes and deploying them on daily bombing runs against targets across the country. It also covers the costs of the some 2,000 specialist Russian troops who make up the expeditionary force and of providing logistics support — including ammunition and fuel — by military transport planes and ships from Russia.
Add to that another $52 million to cover the $2 million apiece cost of the 26 cruise missiles Russian ships in the Caspian fired on October 7, and the total comes to $87 million in 14 days. The amount does not include the cost of the original transport of the planes and troops to Syria.
The analyst call the estimate "conservative," saying it "might be between $1 million and $4 million more (per day) depending on the actual amount of precision guided munitions which they used."
Sutyagin says that the Defense Ministry's budget is being spent this year faster than scheduled as a result of its multiple priorities.
"In the first eight months of this year, the military had already spent 82 percent of its budget," he says. That suggests the military could exceed its budget, forcing the government to dig into national reserves to cover costs at a time when the Russian economy is reeling from low oil prices and Western sanctions.
That sounds like peanuts compared to thr trillions spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Newman is right. The actual cost of those cruise missiles is a small fraction of the $2 million the defence contractors charge the Pentagon. I am sure the Russian military is run much more efficiently.
And speaking of reserves, at least Russia has reserves, not $20 trillion in debt!
your source Business Insider is as bad as it gets...
Sutyagin is sold out..took money then, since and now
work for Loundon
those expense are bs
no out of pocket for men already on duty
using old near expiration ordinance thus saving disposal expense
real is small fraction those claims
plus is experience vs otherwise excercises for practices
Why does the MIC crowd live so well out in suburban Virginia and Maryland? The Tyler's make great light of the answer.
The long Grey Line doesn't disappoint.
Its getting harder to support ISIS now that Russia is involved. Sad Obama has to rely on airdrops that "hopefully" make it to the CIA trained ISIS fighters.
The US Government can no longer count on the support of the American people. The owners of this "government" need to start treading lightly... but they are immensely stupid these days and we can count on more hilarious gaffes like this Syria business in the years to come.
A true American patriot's duty is to dismantle the Aristocracy. Aristocrats owning the State is a profoundly unAmerican phenomenon.
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How would you know what the American people support these days?
You would have to be one to know...
Hey, if all you have are ad hominem attacks then you really don't have anything. ~signed, an American.
It's too late, really. Baiting the bear was not supposed to put all of Syria, the offshore nat gas and the Golan into play. It doesn't matter if the US media goes mute, either. The only countries that count are Germany, Italy and Greece, the ones on the front line of the neocon debacle. The full U.S. military is needed to turn this one around for Bibi and guess what....there isn't even a Speaker at the moment, because not one American pol really wants to lead the country into a war with Russia.
try this......Bibi....we are just not that into you....
sounds like 50 tons of intended chaos to me
can't wait for the russians to pick up a load for themselves to save some money for the better stuff. a few made in america shoulder sa rockets would be fun amusement for them.
The crew in those cargo planes are either dumb as fuck or pure evil. You're dropping weapons to Al Qaeda, you assholes!
The USSA has cracked.
Send for the "men in white coats".
Time to drag out the hollyweird holocaust films.
I'm ahead of the game - I'm just about to pop "Schindler's" into the dvd-player.
MOAR WAR!
Main Street is dead.
Long live Wall Street and the MIC.
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Know this: TOW IS THE NEW STINGER. Uh oh...
Video after video AFTER video of Asswad forces beying destroyed by TOW systems. Ouch.
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'Tank massacre': Rebels hit Syrian forces hard after initial offensive
The Syrian government's massive offensive in northern Hama has suffered an initial setback after multiple armored vehicles were destroyed in a melee of anti-tank guided-missile fire that activist media dubbed a "tank massacre."
Rebel fighters in the north Hama region had met the joint Russian-Syrian assault by targeting the attacking regime forces on the ground "with US-made TOW missiles … [and] other guided rockets, which caused the destruction … of over 15 armored cars, vehicles, and tanks."
http://www.businessinsider.com/tank-massacre-rebels-hit-syrian-forces-ha...
BMG71 TOW range ~ 4km (what US sponsored terrorists have in Syria)
BM30 Smerch range ~ 80km
BM21 Grad range ~ 20km
(what Russia has in Syria)
hey good luck with that... the maths are simple here
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Ok. Heres how you do it. Open a browser and click on the links to the videos. You will see a little "play" triangle. Click on that and you will receive your math(s) lesson for the day.
Thank you very much.
Yeah works good against old T72.
Please, keep trying on more modern T90/T91 which will come that way, too. Hope those reporting don't stay to close to those who use the TOW.
When is Washington gonna airdrop me some guns and ammo?
They only seem to like giving out guns and ammo to Drug Cartels and Islamic terrorists.
Hmmm, me-thinks there's some shenanigans afoot.
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It's your haircut. It's cutting off blood supply because the bangs are too long. C'mon, haven't you heard -- all the girls are getting the Taylor Swiftr doo these days.
Tons of ammo for Moozlimz, gun control for us.
WHEEEEE!
I wonder how much stuff is going through to IS controlled Al-Anbar province, which borders the KSA...
That is what we don't know.
You and I may not know, but CIA probably knows to within 12 inches where all that stuff is situated.
But seriously, what happens when American surface to air missiles in the hands of terrorists, start shooting down Russian planes?
If they are going to do so, they had better hurry up before the terrorists all give up and pack their bags. News out today says ISIS fighters are deserting in droves and the leaders of ISIS can no longer pay those nice bonuses that attracted so many adventurers to Syria. ISIS is supposedly assigning some fighters to be military police to track down where all their armies have got to.
Meanwhile, Al-Nusra is getting clobbered around Idlib and the 5 guys that still call themselves the Free Syria Army are beginning to open up talks with the Russians.
Regarding those Stinger/Tow/whatever missiles that have already been "delivered" to ISIS, Al Nusra, et al, I read some speculation that they could be used in the next terrorist attack on a Middle-Eastern airline. New Eastern Outlook site has a lot of new articles about the situation this week. It's looking bad for the terrorists in Syria, who are heading out to Turkey and Iraq.
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A WHOLE lot of "I heard it in the wind" there Kemosabe...
BTW. You could hit a jet with a TOW if it was sitting on the ground. Airborne, that's not what they do. Nice try though!
he said "stinger, tow, whatever missile"
WW3. That was easy.
Did the USA do background checks on those ISIS fighters before issuing gun permits and a shitload of ammo before para-dropping taxpayer weapons into a country they have no business being in? (/sarc)
Seems to me every terrorist in the world is supplied guns and ammo by the USA but a simple "citizen" of the USA has to blow and suck the FBI and various other agencies to get approvals and licenses before he or she can buy a mere pea shooter for self protection.
In-fucking-credible!
CNN and FOX Just laid out that Obama is committing treason and aiding terrorists.
provide link or it did not happen...
Great strategy; like setting a trap for a coon. Step 1) drop food Step 2) attact target & step 3) Russia eats them alive.
ISIS on the receiving end of a Syrian Army arms drop, Sukyak, Southern Idlib.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4DmE8ZmKTM
Eat your hearts out, takfiri fuckers.
There have been a lot of amusing comments on this report, and that's fair enough. But how desperately sad it is to see a once-respected nation fall into such disrepute. I feel genuinely sorry for all US citizens having to watch their country's slide down into moral corruption at the most basic level. Yes, of course many of those citizens are brain-dead idiots who are cheering on their moronic champions; but even so. It's like watching a severely retarded fool walking into a slurry-pit. You don't know whether to laugh or weep; but if you have an ounce of decency, you weep.
Just for fun I checked out the interview Putin gave today to one of the TV channels in Moscow. This quote was toward the end of it:
". . . it’s a well-known fact that the Americans have shut down the programme to train the Free Syrian Army.
They started out with plans to train 12,000 people, then said they would train 6,000, and then they trained only 60 people, and it turned out in the end that only 4–5 people are actually out there fighting ISIS. They spent $500 million on this.
They would have done better to give $500 million to us, and we would have put it to better use in terms of fighting international terrorism, that’s for sure."
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Yes, maybe he could have used it to figure out how to target ISIS. I agree with Putin on this one!
A strategic map showing how much ground ISIS has gained in 24 hours whilst Putin et al are "bombing cough cough" them...
https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5617edc4bd86ef185c8b593c-6103-...
your only source is business insider? maybe should look for legit sources?
ISIS is very damaged. Loss several commanders, 40% infrastructure and many trapped now
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Ha Ha Can't make this shit up...
Video # 9 Says this
"The FSA-affiliated Al-Izza Gathering destroys a BMP infantry fighting vehicle near Morek with a Soviet-produced 9K111 Fagot wire-guided missile."
Umm... yea... Is that you Alfred?
http://www.businessinsider.com/tank-massacre-rebels-hit-syrian-forces-ha...
So preparing to take guns away from law-abiding citizens via executive order in the USA while giving access to guns and ammo for the Syrian rebels. Hmmm? I guess there's no doubt who's side he's on now.
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You could always go to Syria and get all the guns you'd like. Not to mention, plenty of chances to shoot them. Win win.
When I was young and dumb I made about 35 parachute jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division (1/325 Inf). Many of the jumps were out of a C-141, which is similar in size and speed with the C-17. The C-141 slowed down to about 200 mph when we were dropped, and traveled about two miles in the 30 seconds or so it took 120 of us to get out of the plane. Depending on the air speed, wind and altitude, those 112 pallets could be scattered over a wide area. God only knows in whose hands that ammo winds up in.
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They're steered with GPS now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6gWIuW3LBY
operation "you didn't build that folks" is underway
The Gods must be crazy.
The Gods must be crazy.
Billions and Billions of rounds.
Maybe some of that shit all the other gov departments supposedly bought actually went the other way.
I smell a conspiracy!
The Old Man
It would be hilarious if the Russians blow up the ammo that's just been dropped.
Very profitable for arms manufacturers too.
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They can't. They're too busy "cough cough bombing" ISIS...
https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5617edc4bd86ef185c8b593c-6103-...
Didn't I just see on my TV that the Obungle admistration is giving refugee status to Syrian rebels and resettling them in places like Oregon?
What if they shoot up a community college or something?
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Yes, and what if the animals all escape from the zoo and what if the sky falls ... and what if Moscow were to actually quit talking copious amounts of shit and accept ONE Syrian refugee into Moscow?
Russia has made statement they will allow Syrians with limitations and rules
Will be strictly investigated to identify as real Syrian nationals,
most entering Europe are not Syrians, not even left from Syria,
but were gathered in Turkey and other to push into Europe
you consistently miss real facts...
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Ok then. Lets talk "real facts" How many Syrian refugees (from Syria) has Putin brought back to Moscow?
Just give us all a number. Plain and simple. Just the number.
weak bait look yourself maybe you can learn something
You must be the only pretend intellect on the planet who doesn't know that the refugees flooding the European countries (also Russia, if refugees had been invited there) are teaming with provocateurs, saboteurs, and and all the other troublemakers in the CIA's family of fun.
Why should Putin bring back even one refugee to Moscow if it means spending millions of rubles to make sure he is not in the pay of Obama and Brennan?
Especially since it was Obama and the CIA who had all the rioting and protesting in place to start the protests cum revolution to get rid of Assad in 2011, and which created, along with the Invasion of Iraq and Libya, the refugee problem in the first place.
Whether it was to build the Qatari pipeline (not to my mind) or just to shake out Russia's ally Assad and Tartous is irrelevant.
Syria was another ally in Russia's quiver along with Bulgaria, Georgia and Ukraine, 2 years later and Venezuela after that the Peace Prize Negro wanted snatch to prove his bona fides.
So your answer is none. That was a hell of a lot of words to just say "none".
Russia has accepted quite a few refugees displaced by the actions of the Empire.
http://tass.ru/en/ukrainian-refugees-in-russia
Fuck you and your bullshit.
Putin pays by the word, Obama pays by fudge.
0?
On all the speculation ... probabilities ... oh god sneezed.
With this kind of behaviour then Putin is right in the words ...
"What have you done" AGAIN!
Putin may be a despicable tyrant but hey commonsense, he dont arm those he is going to have to fight.
Oh but the USA is not going to fight it is going to leave everybody else to clean up this shit!
US GROUNDTROOPS PLEASE, ON THE GROUND, 300K SHOULD DO IT, IN SYRIA AND YOU CAN COUNT THE BODYBAGS COMING HOME. That is the USA nemesis ... go on dare you to commit.
I'm literally speechless. This has got to be the saddest foreign policy on the planet.
Reggie was humming the lyrics to Tennessee Ford's "16 tons" when he was plowing Barry's ass,so the next day Barry decided to dump "50 tons" on the Syrians,to show Reggie that his love was for real..