The United States trained the rebel New Syrian Army in hopes that it would be a formidable opponent to Islamic State jihadists.
But in its first serious test — an offensive near the Syrian border town of Bukamal — the rebels appear to have failed.
Article is likely another fabrication, just war ra-ra filler in the msm, like hearst’s noozpapers of 100 years ago. See moonofalabama today JUN 30 on latest.
Note the sloppiness in writing the article they could not even bother to edit it before posting to say which border this town is on (likely most readers following Erdo would have thought it was on the Turk border—not so. http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2011/07/map-iraq-bukamal-300.gif
Actually, it is a surprisingly well written article. Please note the final sentence of the 4th paragraph….
“… campaign was launched in conjunction with Iraqi pro government forces storming the Iraqi town of Qaim just across the border.” ?
It is a mistake to make assumptions and also not to understand that a rather competent General Votel ( a General’s General) has just been appointed to head Centcom. Battles have been lost by
“assumptions”. Someone attempted to co ordinate across international borders what could have ended up being a combined attack. One can read into the above sentence many things, but , then, that would be a mistake would it not?
“The United States trained the rebel New Syrian Army in hopes that it would be a formidable opponent to Islamic State jihadists.”
LOL :D
The zionazis invented these “rebels” to destablize Syria along with the extremists. They are not enemies, they are co-workers (mercenary is a job, you know), owned by the same freakshow.
“See moonofalabama today JUN 30 on latest.”
Ah, one of those moon of alabama adverts. That explains the support for the zionist official propaganda the comment began with.
My take on your linked article teranam13 is that the New Syrian Army were simply canon fodder to be used as a diversion so that Islamic State wouldn’t reinforce Qaim from the Syrian side. Strengthen Iraq but weaken Syria. Or you could also say strengthen Syrian Islamic State but weaken Iraqi Islamic State.
“Jaysh al-Islam, a group that is trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad and establish a caliphate in Syria, has shelled a UN humanitarian convoy in the province of Damascus, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Moscow urged the UN to designate the group as a terrorist organization, but the US blocked this initiative.
The incident took place in Harasta, a suburb of Damascus, the ministry detailed. The driver of the truck that was distributing humanitarian aid is said to have been badly wounded.
Jaysh al-Islam has coordinated its activities with al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s offshoot in Syria that is not part to the nationwide ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia and the US earlier this year. For its part, the militants claim that they are part of the Syrian opposition. Its delegation has taken part in the Geneva peace talks.
Russia, Syria, Iran and Egypt have added the group to the list of terrorist organizations. Moscow has made every effort to convince the UN Security Council to designate Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar ash-Sham as terrorists, but the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Ukraine pulled the plug on this initiative.”
Note the countries protecting these terrorists are also zionist ruled, while the countries wanting the terrorists to be treated as terrorists are targets of zionist attack.
Just wondrin….usa coming up with “enhanced” Syria policy closer cooperation with rus, identification of groups,that some believe is a call for arms by DoS to still go at Assad a la Clinton,( or leading to become a stronger foreign policy for Clinton for a stronger presence) turkey seems to have agreed with Putin who or what are the terrorists groups and “goodies “should separate out themselves and T pm says they are directly fighting daesh….as Syria taks are quite fragile , have these become even more paramount at the cost of usa becoming more involved with russia and attempting to control events even more???
Btw a lawsuit is emanating against turkey for war crimes against kurds….Eduard Popov article on fortruss says rus turkey reset will reach a dead end, but various posts so far on tass seem to be optimistic eg Medvedev to meet up, contafts being agreed, minister says investment will be renewed , maybe compensation but of course family of dead pilot do not want the offer of a free house in turkey doah
Rus votes against unhcr resolution putting all blame on Syria ….
Anna news has link to interview with Assad on australian tv….usa adds another 5 rus companies to sanctions os of connections with North Korea, Iran and Syria….Assad says it is Syria that coordinates targets with Rus and Irn…..eu confirms sanctions extension against Rus….maybe Russia’s new forrign policy in a few days will be similar or different….
MSM is on the same page with this story
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-us-rebels-20160629-snap-story.html
The United States trained the rebel New Syrian Army in hopes that it would be a formidable opponent to Islamic State jihadists.
But in its first serious test — an offensive near the Syrian border town of Bukamal — the rebels appear to have failed.
Article is likely another fabrication, just war ra-ra filler in the msm, like hearst’s noozpapers of 100 years ago. See moonofalabama today JUN 30 on latest.
Note the sloppiness in writing the article they could not even bother to edit it before posting to say which border this town is on (likely most readers following Erdo would have thought it was on the Turk border—not so.
http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2011/07/map-iraq-bukamal-300.gif
Actually, it is a surprisingly well written article. Please note the final sentence of the 4th paragraph….
“… campaign was launched in conjunction with Iraqi pro government forces storming the Iraqi town of Qaim just across the border.” ?
It is a mistake to make assumptions and also not to understand that a rather competent General Votel ( a General’s General) has just been appointed to head Centcom. Battles have been lost by
“assumptions”. Someone attempted to co ordinate across international borders what could have ended up being a combined attack. One can read into the above sentence many things, but , then, that would be a mistake would it not?
“The United States trained the rebel New Syrian Army in hopes that it would be a formidable opponent to Islamic State jihadists.”
LOL :D
The zionazis invented these “rebels” to destablize Syria along with the extremists. They are not enemies, they are co-workers (mercenary is a job, you know), owned by the same freakshow.
“See moonofalabama today JUN 30 on latest.”
Ah, one of those moon of alabama adverts. That explains the support for the zionist official propaganda the comment began with.
My take on your linked article teranam13 is that the New Syrian Army were simply canon fodder to be used as a diversion so that Islamic State wouldn’t reinforce Qaim from the Syrian side. Strengthen Iraq but weaken Syria. Or you could also say strengthen Syrian Islamic State but weaken Iraqi Islamic State.
Syrian Militants Whom US Refused to Add to Terror List Shell UN Convoy
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160701/1042298869/jaysh-al-islam-shelling.html
“Jaysh al-Islam, a group that is trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad and establish a caliphate in Syria, has shelled a UN humanitarian convoy in the province of Damascus, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Moscow urged the UN to designate the group as a terrorist organization, but the US blocked this initiative.
The incident took place in Harasta, a suburb of Damascus, the ministry detailed. The driver of the truck that was distributing humanitarian aid is said to have been badly wounded.
Jaysh al-Islam has coordinated its activities with al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s offshoot in Syria that is not part to the nationwide ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia and the US earlier this year. For its part, the militants claim that they are part of the Syrian opposition. Its delegation has taken part in the Geneva peace talks.
Russia, Syria, Iran and Egypt have added the group to the list of terrorist organizations. Moscow has made every effort to convince the UN Security Council to designate Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar ash-Sham as terrorists, but the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Ukraine pulled the plug on this initiative.”
Note the countries protecting these terrorists are also zionist ruled, while the countries wanting the terrorists to be treated as terrorists are targets of zionist attack.
Just wondrin….usa coming up with “enhanced” Syria policy closer cooperation with rus, identification of groups,that some believe is a call for arms by DoS to still go at Assad a la Clinton,( or leading to become a stronger foreign policy for Clinton for a stronger presence) turkey seems to have agreed with Putin who or what are the terrorists groups and “goodies “should separate out themselves and T pm says they are directly fighting daesh….as Syria taks are quite fragile , have these become even more paramount at the cost of usa becoming more involved with russia and attempting to control events even more???
Btw a lawsuit is emanating against turkey for war crimes against kurds….Eduard Popov article on fortruss says rus turkey reset will reach a dead end, but various posts so far on tass seem to be optimistic eg Medvedev to meet up, contafts being agreed, minister says investment will be renewed , maybe compensation but of course family of dead pilot do not want the offer of a free house in turkey doah
Rus votes against unhcr resolution putting all blame on Syria ….
Anna news has link to interview with Assad on australian tv….usa adds another 5 rus companies to sanctions os of connections with North Korea, Iran and Syria….Assad says it is Syria that coordinates targets with Rus and Irn…..eu confirms sanctions extension against Rus….maybe Russia’s new forrign policy in a few days will be similar or different….