U.S. delivers 50 tons of ammunition to Syria rebel groups

[AngryCanadian]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/politics/syria-rebel-groups-ammunition-50-tons/

Free Weapons to terrorists! again :rolleyes:
Seems lessons from the past haven't being learned yet.


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.

The SAC aren't even in Syria and the majority of the members are in Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. Who are the SAC?

http://gotnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mccain-syria-woman.jpg

[twomp]

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.



read the rest here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-12/us-paradrops-50-tons-ammo-syrian-rebels

[vita3]

Did we arm the box cutters to the terrorist on 911?

[Ronin Truth]

And ISIS came in and made off with 3/4 of it.

[AngryCanadian]

Already posted.

[XNavyNuke]

And ISIS came in and made off with 3/4 of it.

And the quarter that the rebels we are backing managed to squirrel away will probably be ID'd and bombed by Russia before daybreak.

XNN

[devil21]

Is this where a lot of the feds ammo purchases that made headlines over the last couple years are ending up?

[pcosmar]

Is this where a lot of the feds ammo purchases that made headlines over the last couple years are ending up?

Nope..
This was already earmarked.



They didn't even have to do it with Cocaine sales this time.

[Uriel999]

I dunno but the chick in pink...damn...I'd take being on a terrorist watch list to hit that.

[timosman]

Can you imagine the commission on this "sale" ?

[randomname]

all while trying to ban guns at home

[RJB]

What could go wrong? :rolleyes:

[ghengis86]

These are the moderate head choppers, right? The ones the WSJ said were Al-CIA-duh and we're back in 'our' good graces after playing the boogeyman role for the last 14 years?

Also, I propose a Constitutional Amendment: US Cutizens have the right to own the same weapons as those our government air drops to 'Rebels' abroad. Love to get me a Manpad, some grenades and a couple pallets of M855. Or 7.62. I'm not that picky.

[alucard13mm]

So we are giving "Moderate rebels" ammo... the same moderate rebels that will

1. Get bombed and killed by russian airstrikes.
2. Get killed by isis
3. Get killed by syrian army
4. Joining isis

Also... if a US manpad shoot down a russian plane, all hell will break loose if its proven to be shot by us back rebels. Also.. chances are high since the russians are using a lot of old planes and hellies.

[presence]

Also, I propose a Constitutional Amendment: US Cutizens have the right to own the same weapons as those our government air drops to 'Rebels' abroad. Love to get me a Manpad, some grenades and a couple pallets of M855. Or 7.62. I'm not that picky.

right? wtf?