| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iraq |
| Blowback! U.S. trained ISIS at secret Jordan base |
| 2014-06-18 |
| JERUSALEM -- Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... , or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials. The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq. Whoopsie! |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #7 Back when Al-Qaeda began flooding into Syria it became clear that no matter how much we may detest Iran and Syria, we had to focus our smiting on Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is a criminal syndicate. You do not train members of a criminal syndicate because, they are murderous murdering criminals. You smite criminals. This is who the smartest guy in the room decided to back? And what did the murderous murdering criminals do? They robbed banks in Mosul and murdered thousands. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-18 16:15 |
| #6 But BUSH! They'll start an FBI investigation, but the DOD will have lost all the emails, and there's no paper trail (god knows they don't make you fill out forms in the mil). |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-18 08:13 |
| #5 Why am I not surprised? Ah, Force 17. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-06-18 08:12 |
| #4 As someone commented here yesterday, the enemy is playing chess and we're playing ... golf. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-06-18 07:35 |
| #3 The USA must of dropped the Map Reading 101 course to expedite training. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-06-18 06:57 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-18 03:08 |
| #1 I hate it when terrorists don't do as they're told. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-06-18 02:14 |