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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 10:11 AM Oct 2015

More fuel for the fire: U.S. delivers 50 tons of ammunition to Syria rebel groups

)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.

All pallets successfully were recovered by friendly forces, a U.S. official said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/politics/syria-rebel-groups-ammunition-50-tons/

Wonder how long it will take this ammo to be sold off to ISIL and other Jihadis?

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More fuel for the fire: U.S. delivers 50 tons of ammunition to Syria rebel groups (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2015 OP
Not bloody long at all would be my guess. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #1
did they include this message? GreatGazoo Oct 2015 #2
Can't find enough rebels to fight ISIS, and yet magically we're airdropping arms TwilightGardener Oct 2015 #3
That will have a calming influence and cut down or the number of homeless refugees/ Monk06 Oct 2015 #4

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
3. Can't find enough rebels to fight ISIS, and yet magically we're airdropping arms
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 11:11 AM
Oct 2015

to a "coalition" of rebels to supposedly fight ISIS. Where were these guys when we offered training and a paycheck? Edit to add: remember a few weeks ago when idiot Gen. Petraeus suggested we arm AQ in Syria? Yeah, this is probably us doing that.

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