Russia: Syria rebels have US-made weapons

I wonder how many Wars Obama is in. Three or four at least depending on how one defines war. Yet oddly the US left doesn’t seem to hate him the way they did Bush even though Bush’s wars were actually trying to meet the ideology and goals of the classical American left. Goals like individual rights and equal rights for women etc. in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet it is Bush that is hated and Obama who is loved.

Could it be that his base is ignorant, or just on the other side of these conflicts as increasingly it appears that Obama is, as time goes on. We published months ago that the US was covertly supplying Al Qaeda in Syria, so it is curious why the BBC chose to publish this now.

BBC:

Rebel fighters fire from the rooftop of house against Syrian government forces in the Bab el-Adid district in Aleppo on 23 October 2012 The West has been reluctant to openly arm the rebels

A senior Russian general has said Syrian rebels now have anti-aircraft weapons, including US-made Stingers.

Gen Nikolai Makarov was quoted by the Interfax news service as saying the origin of the surface-to-air missiles should be “cleared up”.

Russia is the biggest supplier of arms to its Syrian government ally.

Aerial bombardment of rebel-held towns continued on Wednesday, as the UN’s Syria envoy prepared to brief the Security Council on ceasefire efforts.

Lakhdar Brahimi has been trying to arrange a ceasefire between rebels and government forces over the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, which begins on Friday.

Weapon supplies

“We have reliable information that Syrian militants have foreign portable anti-aircraft missile systems, including those made in the USA… it should be cleared up who delivered them,” Gen Makarov told journalists in Russia.

There have been earlier unconfirmed reports of the Syrian opposition having shoulder-mounted missiles, but the West has been reluctant to openly arm the rebels.

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4 Replies to “Russia: Syria rebels have US-made weapons”

  1. I’ve said it for long, and I say it again: It is a tragedy that America and the other western nations on the one hand and Russia and its sphere of influence on the other cannot seem to come to terms with each other. With both sides having their mohammedan ‘allies’ – us Turkey & co, them Syria & co -, the only thing we can expect is going down together in the mohammedan maelstrom. Imagine how things could develop if we were united at least in this one crucial issue…

  2. The reason that Bush was hated and Obama is loved is because of years of infiltration and sedition by the Ne’er-do-wells of the Left. Yes, even in the bastion of the truth, the United States, this has been going on for years.
    The Left has always failed miserably in fair elections, that is why they have always tried to seek power by other means. They will try to rise to the top in non-governmental organisations and the judiciary and eventually the biggest and most influential prize of all, the Media!
    In Europe, for years, the Left have dominated cinema, comedy, theatre and to some extent, the press. This has had an affect on each new generation. They have represented themselves as cool and fashionable in order to appeal to the youth and they have wormed their way into the education system. When someone appears intelligent, rebellious and especially funny or entertaining, then the youth buy it, and fall for it hook, line and sinker. It became fashionable to criticise Bush, to mock him and make fun of his shortcomings, and it was easy to make Obama look like a breath of fresh air.
    Young people are very political but they are also politically naive. The infiltration has gone on for so long that some of these people are no longer young, but as they approach middle age they still carry the marks of Leftist brainwashing.
    Europe is further down the road than the U.S. but the U.S. has still received a lot of damage.People like Obama because they are told to like Obama, not by stuffy old walruses but by trendy, vibrant con-artists.
    The tide is turning. There is a new youth out there, willing to follow rebels and fashion-makers in the same way as the old youth did. These new rebels however, are the cynical hard-headed warriors who are tired of Leftist delusion.
    My fear for the new youth however, is that they still haven’t blossomed enough to have a full voice and when they do it will almost be too late. They will inherit the tyranny that we created for them.
    They will be like the Iranian youth of today, an underground movement of freedom fighters struggling against the dictatorship that the youth of 1979 so readily and so naively imposed upon them.

  3. Bob for all parctical purposes the left controls the entertainment industry in the US and controls all but FOX news in the broadcast news industry, they also control between 80 and 90% or our universities. Even so we are winning the hearts and minds of many of the young voters, they have seen the con job on Obama and are rebelling.