Syria rebels seize ammo depot

Fox News ^ | Published August 03, 2013 AFP

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

BEIRUT (AFP) –  Rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime captured an arms and ammunition dump in the Qalamun area near Damascus early on Saturday, a watchdog said.

In the north, fighting between Kurds and jihadists raged as the main opposition National Coalition called on armed groups there to "exercise restraint".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said several groups, including the jihadist Al-Nusra Front, were behind the capture of the depot of anti-tank weapons and rockets.

"Liwa al-Islam, Al-Nusra Front, Al-Tawhid battalion, the Maghaweer (rebel commando force) and the Qalamun Martyrs' battalion... captured an ammunitions depot near the village of Qaldun in the Qalamun area" northeast of the capital, the Britain-based Observatory said.

They seized "anti-tank weapons and ground-to-ground Grad missiles, as well as a variety of other ammunition, after clashes overnight from Friday to Saturday", it said.

[LyinLibs]

[Cowboy Bob]

Captured a depot that didn't exist until the US set it up for them? Maybe it was a nice discrete way of supplying the "rebels?"

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Earlier this week, jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda took hostage some 200 Kurdish civilians in the northwestern province of Aleppo.]

We are supporting a war against Christians, Jews and Kurds.

[DirtyPigpen]

I was thinking that too. Seems staged to me.

[bgill]

And handed them the key to the front door.

[Owl558]

“Captured a depot that didn’t exist until the US set it up for them?”

I missed that part of the story. How does that work?