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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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History repeats itself. But will the results be the same?
Probably an invoice on each crate.
Reminds me of the Columbia record club and their auto-ship program.
Cargo cult! Ammo from the gods! You see, they WANT us to fight!
He cometh from the sky, cloaked in a Full Metal Jacket with a message of war. "Let all those who speak against me burn and those who worship me shall be granted the power to smite non-believers from the sky."
a better title is US drops ammo to ISIL. come on guys we all know who ISIL/ISIS works for (US/Israel/Saudis). We know why they were financed and formed, to fight Hezbollah, Syria/Iran/now Russia. With Russia in the mix, you can bet your ass ISIS just got a huge pay raise courtesy of CIA black financing. So protestations to the contrary, ISS is all US/Israeli's. Next time somebody gets their heads chopped off, go sue the US/Israeli/Saudi axis
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Wrong my friend.
ISIS is Putins toy. There have been rumors for a long long time that Putin and his pooproxies was supporting ISIS and any Islamdingdong group that would bloody the US and allies in the ME.
And now the proof is here.
Putin "cough cough bombing" ISIS and yet they are taking more land whilst having no resistance at all.
The map doesn't lie.
https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5617edc4bd86ef185c8b593c-6103-...
Holy Smokes! You really got the proof I needed to see.
I'm convinced!
A beautifully drawn map...what better proof could one offer?
Of course the recently disclosed secret Pentagon Report showing the US support of Al Qaeda and ISIS against Assad means nothing to asswipes like you who use wit without intelligence..http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-...
Oh Wait - you used Business Insider as a source!...Excuse me!
Such an awesome gift. You can be sure the Russians know exactly where it fell and are probably tracking those who picked anything up.
You have children running your military.
militarily, Syria and Russia needs to reassert sovereignty over its airspace start shooting down and closing these suppl lines from the west that are keeping the terrorists and rebels alive. my bet, Russia will deploy their S400 AA systems in theatre sooner than later.
>Syria and Russia needs to reassert sovereignty over its airspace start shooting down and closing these suppl lines from the west that are keeping the terrorists and rebels alive.
Disagree. Let 'em to drop "supplies" for "rebels" and whole world will get a living evidence that U.S. helping to terrorists while it says "we fight against terrorists".
Either these weapons are special or putting more "boots" on the ground!
these CLOWNS arn't that dumb
Let's hope our tax dollars aren't going to fund Nusra Front and Islamic State again with nice free weapons and food, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEpBJHRz1U
Sorry if it's a repost, but there is no end to the depths this government will sink in order to disrupt people's lives and destroy nations.
and soon after...like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr7_bw1v48Q
The enemy of my enemy is my friend a real cute saying.
A fucking psycho has no friends or enemies it just kills every fucking thing and you gave it 50 tonnes of the shit!
Assholes.
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Calm down calm down.... Asswad didn't get the ammo. Feel better now?
Ah ha
Like you know!
Quick...Someone put a NO GUN ZONE sign in front of those ammo pallets. Should fix the problem.
"Okay line up and sign for your weapons. Obama says he needs a signature for these to be legal."
"And no Achmed Mouses either."
Obama really needs to go back to congress and get his war he is starting authorized. And if he gaves those Islamic nutjobs stingers, he should be thrown in prison.
This has gotta be the dumbest fucking thing the US military has ever done. WHO THE FUCK IS IN CHARGE??
Oh yeah, dumbo.
You give him way too much credit.
Banksters and War Profiteers are in charge, clearly.
War Profiteers care less about who gets the weapons as long as they are paid for those weapons.
Behind every war profiteer is a bankster funding them.
Govt employees, including presidents, are controlled by bankers. Always have been, always will be. "Follow the money" is not a bromide.
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Why? Because Asswads boys are gonna be on the wrong side of a TOW? Sorry that offends you in a odd kind of hint hint way...
Does anyone still pretend that the US munitions industry cares who kills who with their weapons?
Just keep the cash register ticking over.....till we can fabricate a more profitable threat on Mars or somewhere else in outer space.
Well lets look at this shall we?
We see plenty of AK47s produced by Russia shooting at Russians.
We see Russian SU25 hitting Russian made T72 tanks
We see Russian (and Chinese) RPGs shot at Russians
We could go on but you get the point... The Russians will sell anyhting to anybody and ultimately they get pointed back at them. But even that is apparently good for business...
28? 32? Roubles per 100+ posts?
Thanks to the ever-depreciating ruble, it's cheaper than ever to run the Russian Troll Factory. But hey, they got some nice Crimean beaches, so it was all worth cutting the currency in half, huh?
How precious...somebody loves DC so much, it actually offends them when some "uppity" non-aligned craps on the bankers' plans.
Where do you think Putzin gets his budget bridge loans from?
Well he would, but nobody will loan them the money. Not even China. China will "buy oil" and not loan money...
That's gay.
50 tons .... that works out .... to 10 tons per moderate rebel ?
Probably cheaper than the estimated 500,000,000 USD spent to train them.
Exactly. If they even know where those 5 guys are.
I thought there were only four or five of "our" rebels left? So each one is getting like 10 tons of ammo apiece?
Ever notice how they never identify the "good rebels". Their names, leaders, etc. Because there aren't any "good rebels". Those pallets went right to ISIS and Al Nusrah by design. Even the Iraqi army has been questioning these supply drops in their country. Openly accusing the US of arming ISIS. What side are we on?
"We" are on the side not spouting off with bullshit like "we" are air dropping supplies purposely to ISIS...
Let the hunger games commence!!
Seems like the closing days of Vietnam with the same mentality-exceptionally stupid and indispensable.
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Maybe, but certainly smells of Russias Afghanistan...
#1: take weapons from regular folks.
#2: give weapons to terrorists.
#3: brilliant plan, Obomber!
/sarcasm
All this mayhem in the ME is the result of us kowtowing to those GD scumbag Wahhabi'ists in Riyadh. Bomb Riyadh and you will start to solve the problem.
Duplicate.
Did we drop night vision goggles to the rebels first?
I'm sure Russian sats spotted the locations too - so The Putinator just waits to see who picks it up and when they do, his SU-34s do a meet-and-greet.....
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Umm they've already been delivered. Maybe the Frogffots were on the backfoot?
We can see for sure where this is headed because the Free Syrian Army is bragging that the US will give them unlimited TOW missiles and is working on getting anti-aircraft missiles. This seems way too close to be called a proxy. Russia is losing very many tanks and trucks now. How will they feel when their planes start dropping from the sky ? It'll happen soon. And the ramifications to the US ? DUCK and COVER.
So that's where all the ammo bought by the Department of Health and Human Services ended up!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha.. so.. funny US shit moves. This would ended up either in Libya, Afghan or worse China & Russia weapons manufacturer to be "examined".
Bwahahahahahahaha..
There may not be a strategy here, but definitely a tactic.
Create as much chaos as possible just to exacerbate Putin's situation.
The USSA will stir the pot and make the situation worse for the world in a petulant fit of pique driven by embarrassment.
What's worse is someone in the USGov thinks this is a great strategy--instead of the US being mired in unwinnable tribal warfare, we can back out and take cheap shots at Putin by giving brass knuckles to mutual enemies.
Obama just plays another scratch-off lotto ticket in the chess game of diplomacy. It'll bite him in the ass.
Watch as Putin intercepts a shipment and destroys it live on RT.
Dear President Obama,
I am also a Syrian rebel. Please send me 50 tons of ammo in any mixture of 30.06, .308, .223, 12 ga, .357, .44, .45, or .22 cal. that can be delivered swiftly.
West has become totally evil by supporting & helping terrorists
Well you wanted to know what helicopter money would look like? Free shit from the sky.
Look for the European response: !) embarrassed silence; 2) support; 3) protest. Of course protest would show intelligence, as the US is arming the same terrorists that are driving more refugees to Europe. But unfortunately, intelligence on such matters is a long shot here in Europe.
Oh the irony of this coming from a guy that claims to be frustrated with the lack of common sense gun controls.
Supplying the Muslim Brotherhood Jihadists? What does it take to impeach this bunch? Of course the next CIC should hold a series of court marshalls.
They shoud've dropped shitload of arms on the mountain where those poor damn Yazidis were trapped.
So Syrian rebels have more gun rights than U.S. citizens do. I mean, no one over there had to fill out a form in triplicate, wait for a pencil-dicked paper-pusher to stamp "approved," or go through a waiting period before getting a second firearm.