Reports are surfacing that the Pentagon trained Division 30 has betrayed the US and handed their weapons over to an al-Qaeda affiliate, the Jabhat al-Nusra.
According to reports, the group of moderate rebels surrendered their weapons to Jabhat al-Nusra willfully and immediately after re-entering Syria. Division 30 (which was part of the Obama Regimes pet-project to ally with moderate rebels) was the first group of moderate rebels to graduate from a U.S. led training program in Turkey which aimed to gain allies in the fight against the Islamic state.
The news comes as yet another embarrassing example of the Obama Administrations failed foreign policy at a time where they continue to attempt and convenience the American public that everything is under control.
Just another group of extremists joining up with terrorists instead of fighting them… Nothing to see here folks, move all.
Via Telegraph
A statement on Twitter by a man calling himself Abu Fahd al-Tunisi, a member of al-Qaedas local affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, read: A strong slap for America… the new group from Division 30 that entered yesterday hands over all of its weapons to Jabhat al-Nusra after being granted safe passage.
They handed over a very large amount of ammunition and medium weaponry and a number of pick-ups.
Reports since yesterday claim US-backed leader Anas Obaid has betrayed US & handed weapons to Jabhat al-Nusra #Syria pic.twitter.com/yTZqVT3CI0
Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) September 22, 2015
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a monitoring group, reported that seventy-five Division 30 fighters had crossed into Syria from Turkey early the day before with 12 four-wheel vehicles equipped with machine guns and ammunition.
US Central Command confirmed about 70 graduates of the Syria train and equip programme had re-entered Syria with their weapons and equipment and were operating as New Syrian Forces alongside Syrian Kurds, Sunni Arab and other anti-Isil forces.
The latest disaster, if true, will be the second to befall the programme. Last month, after the first group of fighters re-entered, the militia was attacked and routed by Jabhat al-Nusra, which stormed its headquarters and kidnapped a number of its members.
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