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U.S. delivers 50 tons of ammunition to Syria rebel groups
CNN ^ | October 12, 2015 | Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent

Posted on 10/12/2015 8:15:06 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

CNN)U.S. military cargo planes gave 50 tons of ammunition to rebel groups overnight in northern Syria, using an air drop of 112 pallets as the first step in the Obama Administration's urgent effort to find new ways to support those groups.

Details of the air mission over Syria were confirmed by a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly because the details have not yet been formally announced.

C-17s, accompanied by fighter escort aircraft, dropped small arms ammunition and other items like hand grenades in Hasakah province in northern Syria to a coalition of rebels groups vetted by the US, known as the Syrian Arab Coalition.

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TOPICS: Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: fsa; obamaarmsisis; obamalovesisis; obamarearamsisis; obamasryia; obamasyria; proxywar; russiasyria; syrianarabcoalition; syriarebels; syriawar
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1 posted on 10/12/2015 8:15:06 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

And when did we declare war on Syria? Rhetorical question.


2 posted on 10/12/2015 8:16:10 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: All

God only knows how much of that ammo is landing in the hands of ISIS...


3 posted on 10/12/2015 8:16:14 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

ISIS receives 50 tons of ammo from Obama.


4 posted on 10/12/2015 8:16:21 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

If these weapons were not dropped into the hands of the Kurds, then it is just urinating into the wind....

Because either all this war material is going to wind up in the hands of ISIS, or be squandered uselessly.


5 posted on 10/12/2015 8:18:09 AM PDT by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: MplsSteve

Øbammy knows, and he ain’t no God. And his side kick, Val too.

That is probably the intention.


6 posted on 10/12/2015 8:18:27 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
I am sure ISIS will be more than happy to send it back to at us.
7 posted on 10/12/2015 8:19:21 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

This is total, complete, utter insanity.


8 posted on 10/12/2015 8:20:54 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: DaxtonBrown
ISIS receives 50 tons of ammo from Obama.

You are exactly correct.

9 posted on 10/12/2015 8:21:00 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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To: C210N

If I may a small observation...

Vlad is not by any stretch chummy with Obama...

Just take a look atany photo or video with them both in it...

If that’s Love they got problems...

Vlad is just filling the Vacuum and he also is a Christian...

Bammmy, we all knowhow he rolls...


10 posted on 10/12/2015 8:21:00 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Well I give it three days before Merkel kicks some German out of their house to make room for it.


11 posted on 10/12/2015 8:21:09 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Check youtube for videos about the Horrible Free Syrian Army, it’s like amateur hour


12 posted on 10/12/2015 8:21:25 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Obama is pretty good at emergency resupply of ISIS and al Qaeda in Syria.

To bad he could not get supplies to Yemen for 6 years to help them fight


13 posted on 10/12/2015 8:22:19 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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To: Truth29

A better question is what will Barry the Pretender do should Russian jets shoot down a couple of our cargo planes that are dropping these supplies?

I believe he will wet himself and then ask VJ what he should do.


14 posted on 10/12/2015 8:24:58 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Obama’s upping the proxy war. This can’t end well.


15 posted on 10/12/2015 8:25:13 AM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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It has been a slow couple of days.
Let's give Jim some great news to post in
today's thread.



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16 posted on 10/12/2015 8:25:36 AM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
If all y'alls keep paying taxes, expect jailtime and fines for assisting in the financing of terrorism.
17 posted on 10/12/2015 8:25:46 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: MplsSteve

What do I do? My country for the first time that I can remember is aiding the enemy.

I can hope for the utter destruction of all groups there and hope that Russia succeeds? i would rather have Assad as a puppet of Russia than ISIS running the land.

And so far the “moderates have done nothing except turn over weapons to extremists.

I HATE not being able to support my country’s position.

50 tons sounds like a ot. Any military guys know if it is or isn’t? does it depend on what it is?


18 posted on 10/12/2015 8:25:47 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: butlerweave

65 percent didn’t WANT a new government. Christians did fine under Assad.

they didn’t want to be “freed”.

i get retorts that his father killed 100k Syrians.

Maybe the son is only a little better than the father but a LOT better than ISIS.


19 posted on 10/12/2015 8:27:52 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: MplsSteve

50 tons, 112 pallets.


20 posted on 10/12/2015 8:29:56 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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