{"id":1055,"date":"2014-11-03T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:40:22","slug":"not-again-us-trained-syrian-moderates-surrender-to-jihadists-hand-over-heavy-weapons-david-stockmans-contra-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Not Again! US Trained Syrian \u201cModerates\u201d Surrender To Jihadists\u2014\u2013Hand Over Heavy Weapons | David Stockman&#8217;s Contra Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/not-again-us-trained-syrian-moderates-surrender-to-jihadists-hand-over-heavy-weapons\/\">Not Again! US Trained Syrian \u201cModerates\u201d Surrender To Jihadists\u2014\u2013Hand Over Heavy Weapons | David Stockman&#8217;s Contra Corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0089c4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/syria\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0066cc;\">Syria<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>have surrendered to al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"secondPar\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">The US and its allies were relying on Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary Front to become part of a ground force that would attack the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">For the last six months the Hazm movement, and the SRF through them, had been receiving heavy weapons from the US-led coalition, including GRAD rockets and TOW anti-tank missiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">But on Saturday night Harakat Hazm surrendered military bases and weapons supplies to Jabhat al-Nusra, when the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria stormed villages they controlled in northern Idlib province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">The development came a day after Jabhat al-Nusra dealt a final blow to the SRF, storming and capturing Deir Sinbal, home town of the group\u2019s leader Jamal Marouf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">The attack caused the group, which had already lost its territory in Hama to al-Qaeda, to surrender.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Again! US Trained Syrian \u201cModerates\u201d Surrender To Jihadists\u2014\u2013Hand Over Heavy Weapons | David Stockman&#8217;s Contra Corner. Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in\u00a0Syria\u00a0have surrendered to al-Qaeda. 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