lunes, 18 de septiembre de 2017

CIA covert arms program ends, Pentagon covertly sends weapons to Syria

CIA covert arms program ends, Pentagon covertly sends weapons to Syria

 

Special investigation by Whitney Webb for Mint Press News: The Trump administration announced that it would end the CIA’s covert program aimed at arming and training
terrorist-linked “moderate rebels” in Syria, sparking hope among some
Trump supporters that he was finally enacting the anti-interventionist
rhetoric of his campaign.


However, a recently released report shows that the Pentagon has picked
up the slack left by the end of the CIA’s program — pumping billions of
dollars worth of weapons into the hands of Syrian “rebels,” while
attempting to mask the paper trail and their suppliers’ ties to
organized crime. #Syria

 Free Syrian Army fighters clean their weapons and check ammunition at their base on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. (Khalil Hamra/AP)