Betrayed: U.S.-trained ‘rebels’ immediately hand over weapons, ammo to al Qaeda affiliate in Syria
(NationalSecurity.news) While the Obama Administration’s efforts to
combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have been heavily condemned
as too little, too late, by many defense hawks, one new development
won’t ease that criticism: No sooner did U.S.-trained fighters whom the
Pentagon planned to send into battle against ISIS hit the ground in
Syria than they turned over all of their weapons and ammunition to
members of the self-declared caliphate.
Fighters with Division 30, the so-called “moderate” rebel division in
favor with the Pentagon, surrendered to members of the
al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, a number of sources said in
statements to the UK’s Telegraph Sept 22.
