Syria. Moderate Jihad
On the American television channel CBS's "60 Minutes" program, Barack Obama said that he "had doubts from the very beginning that we would be able to effectively create an army in Syria" that could fight the Islamic State, as they say now. "boots on the ground".
The reason why the Americans, as it became known during parliamentary hearings in Senator McCain’s committee, managed to put “5000 or 4 people” in the ranks instead of 5 fighters, according to Obama, is Bashar Assad. While he remains in power in Syria, the Americans have failed to find anyone willing to fight IS.
According to Obama, the government's half-billion-dollar program appeared to be a kind of scientific experiment, the purpose of which was to confirm the president's doubts that it was possible to switch the forces of the moderate Syrian opposition from the fight against Assad to the fight against ISIS.
Instead of a failed expensive and complex program with multi-stage screening of recruits and their subsequent training, the Americans decided to switch to the good old tactics of Jason, who sowed the field with dragon teeth, from which ferocious warriors grew instead of seedlings.
Today, citing an anonymous high-ranking official, CNN reported that an American strategic military transport aircraft Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, guarded by fighter jets, dropped 112 containers with weapons and ammunition with a total weight of 50 tons over the northeastern Syrian province of Al-Hasakah. These are mainly small arms and hand grenades.
The recipient of the shipment was identified as a US-vetted coalition of rebel groups known as the Syrian Arab Coalition.
However, as has happened more than once before, the appearance of these weapons will not cause much surprise to IS or other jihadists. For example, according to an investigation published on October 9 by the American Institute for Peace and Prosperity (founded by Ron Paul, a famous libertarian politician), the so-called. “technical vehicles” - pickup trucks produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which have become the favorite vehicles of IS militants, were initially supplied by the Americans and British to the fighters of the Syrian Free Army. At the same time, American departments sought from Japanese automakers a report on how their products end up in large numbers with militants.
Also, sources in the leadership of Saudi Arabia, whose Defense Minister Prince Muhammad bin Salman held talks with Vladimir Putin in Sochi on Sunday, also report increased support for representatives of the “moderate opposition.” It is reported that new deliveries of their SA may also include modern anti-tank weapons and even MANPADS.
To get an idea of what the moderate opposition is, just a few recent reports are enough.
On the official Twitter of the Victory Army group, whose main sponsors are the Saudis, a message appeared that in the Syrian province of Idlib, which they control, all women must wear a hijab. I don’t know if all the ladies there are so advanced that they have started microblogs for themselves, but given the pace of the advance of the Syrian troops and the intensity of Russian bombing in the area, these requirements for the women’s dress code may lose relevance.
Another moderate group from Homs has already reported on the preparation of suicide bombers for attacks on Russian military targets.
And what? American weapons, Saudi money, hijabs for women and suicide vests for men - a classic, quite moderate, in today's harsh times, jihad.
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