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Obama Just Handed Over a Bunch of Anti-Tank Missiles to ISIS
Front Page ^ | Nov 3, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/04/2014 8:21:01 AM PST by Whenifhow

Who could have predicted this would happen? Oh everyone. I’m not even going to bother with an “I Told You So”. Everyone outside the D.C. bubble was predicting this.

Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda.

The US and its allies were relying on Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary Front to become part of a ground force that would attack the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

For the last six months the Hazm movement, and the SRF through them, had been receiving heavy weapons from the US-led coalition, including GRAD rockets and TOW anti-tank missiles.

But on Saturday night Harakat Hazm surrendered military bases and weapons supplies to Jabhat al-Nusra, when the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria stormed villages they controlled in northern Idlib province

In Idlib, Harakat Hazm gave up their positions to Jabhat al-Nusra “without firing a shot”, according to some reports, and some of the men even defected to the jihadists.

In Aleppo, where Harakat Hazm also has a presence, the group has survived, but only by signing a ceasefire agreement with Jabhat al-Nusra, and giving up some of their checkpoints to the group.

There are no “moderate” rebels. There are only Jihadists pretending to be what we want them to be to get weapons, money and air support from us. Once they get it, they will pass it on up the ladder.

As I pointed out back in June, this is how it works.

Four out of five of the FSA’s front commanders had demanded to work with Al Qaeda last year. Parts of the FSA joined the Islamic Front and seized the FSA’s weapons warehouses taking anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The FSA fighters fled. Earlier ISIS had seized USAID items intended for the FSA.

After these embarrassments Obama was forced to temporarily suspend aid to the Free Syrian Army.

Pouring weapons and money into Syria just means arming and funding ISIS.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; military; missile; obama; obamaisis; obamanewisisstrategy
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Syrian rebels armed and trained by US surrender to al-Qaeda

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11203825/Syrian-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-US-surrender-to-al-Qaeda.html

Obama Will Fight ISIS by Arming ISIS

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-will-fight-isis-by-arming-isis/

If We Want to Beat Al Qaeda, We Have to Stop Arming It

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/if-we-want-to-beat-al-qaeda-we-have-to-stop-arming-it/

1 posted on 11/04/2014 8:21:01 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Louis Foxwell

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Syrian rebels armed and trained by US surrender to al-Qaeda

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11203825/Syrian-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-US-surrender-to-al-Qaeda.html

Obama Will Fight ISIS by Arming ISIS

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-will-fight-isis-by-arming-isis/

If We Want to Beat Al Qaeda, We Have to Stop Arming It

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/if-we-want-to-beat-al-qaeda-we-have-to-stop-arming-it/


2 posted on 11/04/2014 8:21:44 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Get it right.
Obama hates America, especially our volunteer army.


3 posted on 11/04/2014 8:23:47 AM PST by Rapscallion (Americans are led by a failed president. God save America.)
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To: Whenifhow

Obama WANTS to arm ISIS because he wants an Islamic caliphate in the Mid East.


4 posted on 11/04/2014 8:24:32 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Whenifhow

Predictable, as we all here did predict.

And still stunning.

0bama stands with the terrorists.


5 posted on 11/04/2014 8:24:33 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (I'M WITH CRUZ!)
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To: Whenifhow

The Covert Origins of ISIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI


6 posted on 11/04/2014 8:24:55 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Whenifhow

how long until some of Obama’s buddies shoot down a US airliner, just like TWA 800...?


7 posted on 11/04/2014 8:25:01 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Whenifhow
Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is about as high up as "high crimes" as you can get.

Good thing this one is not stained with semen.

8 posted on 11/04/2014 8:25:59 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Whenifhow

The only reliable allies in Syria are the KURDS, not FSA


9 posted on 11/04/2014 8:26:08 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: Whenifhow

It’s called “TREASON”, I.e. Aiding and abetting the enemy.


10 posted on 11/04/2014 8:27:47 AM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Rapscallion
Obama hates America,...

Obama hates America, Obama hates Western Civilization, Obama hates freedom.

11 posted on 11/04/2014 8:28:15 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Because Obama is a MUSLIM.


12 posted on 11/04/2014 8:30:48 AM PST by Biggirl
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To: Whenifhow
After these embarrassments Obama was forced to temporarily suspend aid to the Free Syrian Army. Pouring weapons and money into Syria just means arming and funding ISIS.

Temporarily because arming and funding ISIS is fine with Obama. He just doesn't want it in the press. Shut it down for a little while until the press looks away. Which, given their incredible level of in-curiosity won't be long.

13 posted on 11/04/2014 8:32:31 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

In the US as well? Dual governing?


14 posted on 11/04/2014 8:33:42 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Whenifhow

The only muslim who MIGHT be trusted is a dictator.


15 posted on 11/04/2014 8:34:09 AM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: Rapscallion

This is the reason you never negotiate with terrorists. They are liars, deceivers, and will slot your throat the moment you turn your head the other way. Yes, our current president is a traitor whoself defects and calls every patriotic American a “tea bagger” and domestic terrorist when we are anything but. He is ensuring that we are a crippled animal being stalked by other predators hoping that no one who supports him notices what he is actually doing.


16 posted on 11/04/2014 8:34:21 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

This is the reason you never negotiate with terrorists. They are liars, deceivers, and will slit your throat the moment you turn your head the other way. Yes, our current president is a traitor who self defects and calls every patriotic American a “tea bagger” and domestic terrorist when we are anything but. He is ensuring that we are a crippled animal being stalked by other predators hoping that no one who supports him notices what he is actually doing.


17 posted on 11/04/2014 8:35:33 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Whenifhow

This guy is setting us up big time.


18 posted on 11/04/2014 8:38:39 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: Whenifhow

Every rape, every slave, every beheading, every death
by US equipment is blood on the hands of pRes_ _ent Obola
the Undocumented First Moslem by Pelosi’s fraud
and the EXEMPT who have been systematicaly
COMPLICIT for 6 years in his pre-planned treason.


19 posted on 11/04/2014 8:38:55 AM PST by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Biggirl

The Won is not Muslim - Muslims worship Allah, and The Won worships none but himself.

He is, however, without a doubt a Muslim sympathizer.


20 posted on 11/04/2014 8:40:51 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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