Tag: al-Nusra
Posted on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 12:34:56 PM EST
Tags: al-Nusra, Syria (all tags)
First, the U.S. admitted equipment it provided to the Syrian Rebels it was training ended up with al Nusra, the Al Qaida affiliated group. But it denied knowing or training the person who gave it to them.
The Daily Beast says Centcom then admitted a little more:
The Pentagon, responding to reports in The Daily Beast that a specific U.S.-trained commander had defected along with most of his unit to a group affiliated with al Qaeda, will now concede that an unnamed commander who actually had been rejected by the U.S. as a possible trainee for the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State had somehow acquired access to U.S. equipment that he then handed over to al Qaeda affiliates.
But it gets worse. [More...]
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