{"id":122087,"date":"2015-09-26T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T08:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122087"},"modified":"2015-09-28T04:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T04:43:11","slug":"syrian-rebel-commander-who-completed-a-us-training-program-admits-to-giving-military-equipment-to-an-al-qaida-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122087","title":{"rendered":"Syrian rebel commander who completed a US training program admits to giving military equipment to an al-Qaida affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction — Sept 26, 2015<\/h1>\n
\"Nusra-Front<\/a>

Nusra-Front terrorists in Syria. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

This is another example of how the media is being used to feed disinformation to an unwitting public.<\/h5>\n
We know that the U.S. has been covertly aiding the al Nusra terror group<\/a><\/span> in Syria. Indeed there have been numerous reports that the U.S. and its allies have funded the al-Qaeda linked group<\/a><\/span>. Over two years ago we were carrying reports<\/a><\/span> that the West was covertly aiding and abetting terrorist groups in Syria, often with airlifts of arms and equipment<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n
What follows is known as a limited hangout. A partial admission of the truth that is then used to divert attention from a larger, less palatable truth.<\/h5>\n
In this case we are being informed that Western supplied arms have indeed ended up in the hands of al Qaida linked Syrian rebels. But they were supplied by a lone rebel commander who was undergoing a Western sponsored training program. The inference being that he was acting on his own initiative.<\/h5>\n
So that although it is now being openly acknowledged that Western arms are in the hands al Qaeda linked affiliates, the fact that they were supplied by the West is still being concealed.<\/h5>\n

Syrian rebel commander who completed a US training program admits to giving military equipment to an al-Qaida affiliate<\/h2>\n

Associated Press — Sept 26, 2015<\/h3>\n

A Syrian rebel commander who recently completed a U.S. training program has told the U.S. military that he surrendered six coalition-provided trucks and ammunition to an intermediary linked to the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria, known as the Nusra Front.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command said late Friday that roughly 25 percent of the equipment assigned to that unit was apparently turned over earlier this week in exchange for safe passage within the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. officials said the Syrians continue to insist that they have not relinquished any actual weapons to the Nusra Front and that all of their personnel are still accounted for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Air Force Col. Pat Ryder, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said the command is looking into the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the report contradicts information the Defense Department provided earlier in the day, which said reports of U.S.-trained Syrian rebels defecting and missing equipment going to the Nusra Front were incorrect.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report underscores persistent problems with the U.S.-led coalition’s effort to train and equip Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryder said the Syrians had told the U.S. earlier Friday that no equipment or people were missing, but the U.S. found out later on that some of those assertions were wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said providing equipment to the Nusra Front is a violation of the training and equipping program.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘In light of this new information, we wanted to ensure the public was informed as quickly as possible about the facts as we know them at this time,’ Ryder said.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘We are using all means at our disposal to look into what exactly happened and determine the appropriate response.’<\/span><\/p>\n

The commander who turned the equipment over to the Nusra Front was one of about 70 rebel fighters who were in the second U.S. training course.<\/span><\/p>\n

He had only recently returned to Syria to fight the Islamic State militants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The training program has been criticized as offering too little too late and failing to provide enough protection for those trained rebels once back inside Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The selected rebels are said to undergo a thorough vetting process to ensure they focus on the fight against the IS.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. officials have begun an overhaul of the effort, including suggesting that the newly trained fighters operate as the New Syrian Forces, or NSF, alongside Syrian Kurds, Sunni Arab and other anti-Islamic State forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first batch of about 54 trainees has largely disbanded. Of the 54, one was killed; one is being held captive; nine are back in the fight; 11 are available but not in Syria; 14 returned to Syria but quit the U.S. program; and 18 are unaccounted for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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