As part of an Obama administration plan to arm "Moderate forces" in Syria, United States military equipment and ammunition went instead to ISIS terrorist forces.
Zayd, who said he defected from the Syrian Army to the opposition in 2012, described a program that was rife with inconsistencies and incompetencies - which was rather standard of the Obama administration.
Those trucks and ammo issued to Zayd by the United States in 2015, were a part of a $500 million Department of Defense effort to "Train and equip" a new "Ideologically moderate" force to battle ISIS. The program, one of at least two designed to funnel arms to so-called "Moderate Syrian rebels", proved to be a spectacular failure for the Obama administration.
Zayd said fighters charged back to their base in Turkey, demanding answers.
U.S trainers took responsibility for the "Flag mistake," Zayd said, and the following day the rebels continued back to Syria.
"The Americans were so angry when they found out, they cut my salary," Zayd said nonchalantly.
"I got many messages the Americans do not want to deal with me anymore. But they can't get their weapons back," he boasted of his chess game with the Obama administration and DoD. A second Obama administration program, "Timber Sycamore," was started by the CIA in late 2012 with the similar aim of arming rebels.
https://freedomoutpost.com/obama-admins-plan-to-arm-moderates-went-wrong-trucks-and-ammo-went-to-isis/
Zayd, who said he defected from the Syrian Army to the opposition in 2012, described a program that was rife with inconsistencies and incompetencies - which was rather standard of the Obama administration.
Those trucks and ammo issued to Zayd by the United States in 2015, were a part of a $500 million Department of Defense effort to "Train and equip" a new "Ideologically moderate" force to battle ISIS. The program, one of at least two designed to funnel arms to so-called "Moderate Syrian rebels", proved to be a spectacular failure for the Obama administration.
Zayd said fighters charged back to their base in Turkey, demanding answers.
U.S trainers took responsibility for the "Flag mistake," Zayd said, and the following day the rebels continued back to Syria.
"The Americans were so angry when they found out, they cut my salary," Zayd said nonchalantly.
"I got many messages the Americans do not want to deal with me anymore. But they can't get their weapons back," he boasted of his chess game with the Obama administration and DoD. A second Obama administration program, "Timber Sycamore," was started by the CIA in late 2012 with the similar aim of arming rebels.
https://freedomoutpost.com/obama-admins-plan-to-arm-moderates-went-wrong-trucks-and-ammo-went-to-isis/
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