U.S. training Syrian rebels at secret bases

[deminks]

Source: CBS News

Since late last year, the CIA has been training small numbers of Syrian rebels at secret bases in Turkey and Jordan, CBS News has confirmed.

The training includes the use of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, which have been supplied by Arab countries, and which the rebels say they need to counter the firepower of the Syrian army.

It is unclear how many rebel fighters have been through the training, but the number is probably in the hundreds.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57590531/u.s-training-syrian-rebels-at-secret-bases/

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Austerity Now! Austerity Forever!

[KoKo]

2. They might have gotten their Original Training in our "Facility in Georgia"

the "School for Americas" that has been PROTESTED for YEARS...but, always flies under the radar.

[KoKo]

3. "School for Americas in Georgia" ...some info:

Converge on Fort Benning! November 22-24

Mark your calendars! Tell your friends!

We're heading to Fort Benning, Georgia, from November 22-24 to keep up the pressure to close the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC). We carry with us the strength of social movements in Latin America who are turning their back on the SOA. We won't stop!

Will you join us? Read about why we mobilize.

Thousands will gather at the gates, with speakers, music, street theater, workshops and networking with people from across the Americas. We come together at the gates of Fort Benning - where the killers are trained - to demand an end to US militarization and to impunity. The Vigil weekend is your opportunity to connect your communities with those across the hemisphere who are resisting Empire. In addition to the main funeral procession on Sunday, November 24, we will again have rallies, concerts, workshops, caucuses and street theater on Friday and Saturday.

And this year, on Friday, November 22, we will once again kick off the weekend joining our sisters and brothers to demand the closure of private detention prisons, like the Stewart Detention Center, and to highlight the connection between militarization and forced migration. Come early!

Check our our NEW Vigil website and STAY connected! (or else someone at the SOA Watch office is not going to be a very happy camper... and you know, we're tired of camping out here in the office!)

Adelante!!


http://www.soaw.org/

[John2]

4. The Syrian State News,

also known as SANA, has been showing the confessions of a captured opposition fighter from Aleppo, about who funded him and how they entered Syria through Turkey with the help of Turkish intelligence. They have been running this on Syrian State Television. Some of the things he revealed was where they were trained, their mission and how they got weapons from certain Governments. He claims they recruit thousands of Terrorists from Belgium,Tunisia, Lebanon, Libya, Saudia Arabia, Chechnya, Egypt,France, Spain and Turkey to train at a NATO Base by the CIA and in Jordan,Libya, and Saudi Arabia. He apparently gave intelligence about weapons routes from Libya through the Lebanese border and through the Turkish border to supply them. He claimed many of the people working with him got killed after a supply of weapons captured in an attack by the Syrian Army in Aleppo. He was revealing the names of groups and commanders, along with their positions for the Syrian Army. According to that information, the Syrian intelligence forces, know what countries are supplying the weapons. I don't know why some want to keep it a secret when the Syrians and their Allies already know. I guess the only ones they are trying to keep it a secret from is us. They are doing a lousy job of it.

[David__77]

5. US $ to al Qaeda.

And now training them to kill us in the future.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Deja vu Afghanistan.

[Marrah_G]

6. This worked so well for us the last time

[Poll_Blind]

7. Good lord. It's typical, though, isn't it? It just makes me a little sick every time I hear...

...something like this, though.

PB

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. Does this constitute an act of war by the US against Syria?

Would we consider it an act of war if some distant country trained Teabagger militias hiding across the border in Mexico who then came to attack us?

[Alamuti Lotus]

9. That's different!

I'm not exactly sure how it's different, but I'm sure it is somewhere in the neighborhood of that "we're special" line.

[ButterflyBlood]

11. How about because Obama isn't Assad?

He's a democratically elected leader, not a brutal dictator.

A more comparable analogy might be how the KGB and Stasi funded and armed anti-Pinochet and Argentine junta groups, and the ANC in South Africa. And that doesn't bother me at all.

[tiny elvis]

13. not an act of war because obama is elected

comparable to kgb and stasi actions
which were not acts of war because i was not bothered

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. You mean like RT claimed as early as the first months of last year?

I read this as a slow roll out of what we are, and have been doing.

I guess we were well ahead of officially acknowledging this shit to the sheep.