Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supported by some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. Launched in 2012 or 2013, it supplied money, weaponry and training to Syrian opposition militias of the Free Syrian Army fighting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. According to US officials, the program was run by the CIA’s Special Activities Division and has trained thousands of rebels. President Barack Obama secretly authorized the CIA to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013. The program became public knowledge in mid-2016.
One consequence of the program has been a flood of US weapons including assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades into the Middle East’s black market. Critics saw it as ineffective and expensive, and raised concerns about diversion of weapons to jihadist groups and about Timber Sycamore-backed rebels fighting alongside the al-Nusra Front.
Timber Sycamore began in late 2012 and was similar to other Pentagon or CIA-run weapons routing and training programs that were established in previous decades to support foreign rebel forces to help them perform coups. (so the us can put their own puppet leaders in charge)
In April 2014, Seymour Hersh wrote an essay published in the London Review of Books which does not mention Timber Sycamore but which describes an anonymous former senior US intelligence official’s claims that the U.S. diplomatic post in Libya’s Benghazi “had no real political role” and existed solely to provide cover for a secret arms pipeline supporting Syrian rebels fighting in the Syrian Civil War in early 2012. According to Hersh’s source, the “rat line” was a means for channeling military weapons from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria and into the hands of Syrian rebels. According to Hersh, an agreement in early 2012 between Obama and Erdoğan proposed an operation funded by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and conducted by the CIA in collaboration with MI6, although a spokesperson for then CIA director David Petraeus said the operation never happened.
Seymour Hersh was right but US Government denied it. Sound familiar?
The standard in US foreign policy is to organise, fund and train opposition groups to get rid of leaders they want disposed. US led coups of other Governments and their leaders is standard practice, they done it countless times according to CIA documents and they deny it and call accusations propaganda till decades later when the truth comes out.
Oh your country has a democracy elected leader that isn’t our puppet? Time to arm, fund & organise groups to start protests in your country while staging a false flag op that we can blame on that Government to get the leader ousted.
Great now we can put some US army bases on your soil right at the borders of the next country we are targetting while stealing your oil fields.
and the cycle goes on…
from the article:
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>The Turkish Defense Ministry said that the drone didn’t belong to the Turkish armed forces.
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They had to, it was about to ‘genocide’ the oil refineries. Surely, no American can stand by and let that happen.
Syria has become an international far west.
Syria is that country that any other can invade.
How long are they going to stay there?
Turkey invaded under the pretext of an anti terrorist operation.
And got away with it.
Don’t you love it when people are posting articles behind pay-walls?
Don’t you love when you are not asked by sovereign country to be there and you are still there because of oil…khmmm ISIS/ISIL.
Good thing about Syria news is that you know for sure people claiming to understand the situation are full of it.
Also questionable article for the Europe sub.
Another cock fight. Loop has been finished. Now Turkey needs to hit a Russian aircraft to start loop again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supported by some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. Launched in 2012 or 2013, it supplied money, weaponry and training to Syrian opposition militias of the Free Syrian Army fighting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. According to US officials, the program was run by the CIA’s Special Activities Division and has trained thousands of rebels. President Barack Obama secretly authorized the CIA to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013. The program became public knowledge in mid-2016.
One consequence of the program has been a flood of US weapons including assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades into the Middle East’s black market. Critics saw it as ineffective and expensive, and raised concerns about diversion of weapons to jihadist groups and about Timber Sycamore-backed rebels fighting alongside the al-Nusra Front.
Timber Sycamore began in late 2012 and was similar to other Pentagon or CIA-run weapons routing and training programs that were established in previous decades to support foreign rebel forces to help them perform coups. (so the us can put their own puppet leaders in charge)
In April 2014, Seymour Hersh wrote an essay published in the London Review of Books which does not mention Timber Sycamore but which describes an anonymous former senior US intelligence official’s claims that the U.S. diplomatic post in Libya’s Benghazi “had no real political role” and existed solely to provide cover for a secret arms pipeline supporting Syrian rebels fighting in the Syrian Civil War in early 2012. According to Hersh’s source, the “rat line” was a means for channeling military weapons from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria and into the hands of Syrian rebels. According to Hersh, an agreement in early 2012 between Obama and Erdoğan proposed an operation funded by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and conducted by the CIA in collaboration with MI6, although a spokesperson for then CIA director David Petraeus said the operation never happened.
Seymour Hersh was right but US Government denied it. Sound familiar?
The standard in US foreign policy is to organise, fund and train opposition groups to get rid of leaders they want disposed. US led coups of other Governments and their leaders is standard practice, they done it countless times according to CIA documents and they deny it and call accusations propaganda till decades later when the truth comes out.
Oh your country has a democracy elected leader that isn’t our puppet? Time to arm, fund & organise groups to start protests in your country while staging a false flag op that we can blame on that Government to get the leader ousted.
Great now we can put some US army bases on your soil right at the borders of the next country we are targetting while stealing your oil fields.
and the cycle goes on…
from the article:
​
>The Turkish Defense Ministry said that the drone didn’t belong to the Turkish armed forces.
Ok, then no (diplomatic) problem? Good!