6 hours agoSyria's rebel groups are supplied with weapons from CIA secret programme
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)While rebel groups are determined to end Bashar Assad's regime, Washington will send more weapons through the previously cancelled CIA programme. In 2012, more than 2 years since the conflict in Syria had begun, the CIA had proposed supplying weapons to groups of [...]
In 2012, more than 2 years since the conflict in Syria had begun, the CIA had proposed to supply weapons to armed groups fighting Damascus, and in 2013, former President Barack Obama eventually gave his approval of the initiative.
Four years later, after a series of obstacles, US President Donald Trump eventually interrupted this programme, in what “York Times” The “One of the most expensive attempts to arm and train rebels since the agency's programme to arm the migrants in Afghanistan during the 1980s. ”
Efforts to supply Syrian rebels under the Pentagon's favourable circumstances have produced depressing results.
US taxpayers ended up asking about $1 billion to finance the CIA programme; this is not a big change for the country that prints the money offer in the world.
At the end of the day, CIA-backed groups were repeatedly persecuted by the Syrian army, Daesh (ISIL / ISIS) and, occasionally, some of the other US-backed militias.. /Periscopi/
