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| Report: Turkey, U.S. Agree Plan to Train 2,000 Moderate Syrian Rebels | |
| 2014-11-16 | |
The fighters from the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) will be trained at the Kirsehir base some 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of the capital Ankara by both Turkish and U.S. personnel starting from late December, Hurriet Daily News reported, quoting unnamed officials. The United States will provide weapons for the fighters and is also expected to pay for the training, the English-language daily said. The agreement was reached after a third round of talks between Turkish and US military officials in Ankara, the daily said. The officials did not, however, reach an agreement on the training of Syrian Kurd fighters from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), who are leading the battle against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists for the key border town of Kobane, the paper said. The United States is due to train these fighters in Iraq's Kurdish region, it said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has insisted that the PYD fighters are part of a "terror group" allied to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who have fought Turkish security forces in a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish self-rule. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 They worry the corrupt Erdogan would then turn to Russia and work for the Bond super villian with NATO SECRETS. |
| Posted by: newc 2014-11-16 22:12 |
| #10 If the US State Dept were not asleep at the switch, they'd have realized Erdogan was a problem more than 10 years ago, and started contingencies and countering him. Kinda like the whole mess in the Ukraine - going back to the Orange revolution and the rot that set in with the counterrevolution and Putin's meddling, that led to the overthrow of the oligarchs and Putin's invasion in all but name. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-11-16 17:25 |
| #9 What's the over-under on Erdogan proclaiming himself the Sultan or Caliph as ISIS gets blowed up? I figure 6 months. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-11-16 16:35 |
| #8 Sure he'll why not, give a few dislike-a-nukes too. In for a penny in for a kiloton I sez. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-11-16 14:27 |
| #7 Would this be the moderate Al-Nusra, who recently announced its re-engagement with ISJV? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-11-16 10:58 |
| #6 Here's an idea for the US: Arm a group that's proven to be pro-western and friendly to the US, has some combat experience, knows how to do PR (more important in that you might think in that region... strong horse), and is willing to fight, not just soak up aid money. Arm the Kurds. With something more than small arms. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-11-16 10:54 |
| #5 Isn't that an old trick of colonizers? Get the locals to kill each other off then move in. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-11-16 10:24 |
| #4 Fools errand. We (our government) never learns. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Stalin1308 2014-11-16 07:58 |
| #3 We can shake our collective heads and walk away, but as tax payers, we'll still have to pay. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-16 07:55 |
| #2 Shakes head and walks away... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-11-16 07:54 |
| #1 some 2,000 fighters from the moderate Syrian opposition would be trained on Turkish soil Their moderation to be certified by Turkey? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-16 04:40 |