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U.S. Officials: CIA Has Been Supplying Arms To Syrian Rebels For Weeks
TPM ^ | September 12, 2013 | KIMBERLY DOZIER

Posted on 09/12/2013 5:20:10 AM PDT by xzins

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian rebels for several weeks, following President Barack Obama’s decision to arm the rebels.

The agency has also arranged for the Syrian opposition to receive anti-tank weaponry like rocket-propelled grenades through a third party, presumably one of the Gulf countries that has been arming the rebels, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official and two former intelligence officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the classified program publicly.

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To: xzins

We’ve been arming them since they were fighting the Russian invasion decades ago.

Can’t have a good “conflict” without plenty of weapons.


41 posted on 09/12/2013 6:50:21 AM PDT by Adult Dog
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To: yldstrk

“traitors in the American administration need to be arrested and tried”

Why? For aiding and abetting our Al Quaeda ‘allies’?


42 posted on 09/12/2013 6:51:01 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: penelopesire; TigersEye

So Rove was behind Bush’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood? Not surprised. I never thought Bush was evil himself. Just overly-cloistered.


43 posted on 09/12/2013 6:52:42 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

treasonous


44 posted on 09/12/2013 6:53:18 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Well, uh, there was that slander of the Minutemen that made me think Bush was evil ... stand self-corrected.


45 posted on 09/12/2013 6:53:57 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: GeronL

And to think that BO wanted us to fight WITH Al Quaeda tied anti-Christian terrorists ON 9-11.


46 posted on 09/12/2013 6:54:59 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: Jack of all Trades

Congress approved this in July 2013.

Nobody was looking at the time...I think the distraction was the Benghazi hearings...


47 posted on 09/12/2013 7:05:07 AM PDT by EBH (America is not judge, jury, and executioner for the world.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I know. I am amazed at the lack of outrage in this country.


48 posted on 09/12/2013 7:10:16 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: The Sons of Liberty
When airliners start to drop out of the sky thanks to Hussein supplying his bros with Stingers, THEN will Boehner start IMPEACHMENT?

No. How silly. Everyone knows that airliners blow up in mid-air from faulty wiring run through their fuel tanks.< /sarcasm >

49 posted on 09/12/2013 7:16:13 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: Dixie Yooper

“U.S. officials say the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian rebels for several weeks”

So it is safe to say then that Obama (and this administration) has blood on his/their hands regarding killing of CHRISTIANS???


50 posted on 09/12/2013 7:34:35 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: blueyon
>> “So it is safe to say then that Obama (and this administration) has blood on his/their hands regarding killing of CHRISTIANS???” <<

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Yes!

It has always been safe to say that.

51 posted on 09/12/2013 7:36:57 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

“>> “So it is safe to say then that Obama (and this administration) has blood on his/their hands regarding killing of CHRISTIANS???” <<

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Yes!

It has always been safe to say that. “

THANKS thought so.........God help us


52 posted on 09/12/2013 7:40:05 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: MestaMachine

ping for Benghazi list.


53 posted on 09/12/2013 7:41:29 AM PDT by boxlunch (Psalm 2)
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To: GeronL

Most people don’t know that Syrian rebels = Muslim Brotherhood/Al Queda. Something so basic to us here on FR that have been reading about this for months is not that plain to the average person who is not really into world news.
If they knew - they would be outraged.

We need to correct that.
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
(Don’t ask me how but it has to happen.)

We have treason in the White House, and as far as I’m concerned, every stinking MSM reporter and executive who has been COVERING UP this treason is just as guilty.


54 posted on 09/12/2013 7:45:35 AM PDT by boxlunch (Psalm 2)
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To: yldstrk

Need to be arrested and tried...I’ll guarantee they never will, though!

“Our” side haven’t the balls for it.


55 posted on 09/12/2013 7:46:36 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: nanetteclaret

ping


56 posted on 09/12/2013 7:46:45 AM PDT by boxlunch (Psalm 2)
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To: boxlunch

I agree 100%


57 posted on 09/12/2013 7:49:40 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: blueyon
“U.S. officials say the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian rebels for several weeks” Should read: “U.S. officials say the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Al Qaeda for several weeks”

We will never forget!


58 posted on 09/12/2013 7:52:07 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD? Habakkuk 2;Isaiah 55)
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To: cripplecreek
I think its been going on for a whole lot longer than that.

Of course it has; I recall seeing reports in the first month of the conflict discussing Russian intelligence set up on the border supplying to Assad, with their US counterparts funnelling to the "resistance". Don't recall the source, but the US source (off the record, of course) said they were not the source of the arms, just making sure the arms got to groups that were not radical terrorists. THis might be technically true; they were probably funnelling arms that we paid for, supplied by other regional partners so they weren't traced to us, and making sure they were given to groups that we chose. It is extremely naive to think we have not had a presence in the region from day one.

59 posted on 09/12/2013 8:00:46 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: yldstrk

Start with Brennan and work up.


60 posted on 09/12/2013 8:17:54 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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