PBS: Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar

[jakeXT]

One of the fighters said they received three weeks of training in how to conduct ambushes, conduct raids and use their weapons. They also said they received new uniforms and boots.

“They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road,” said the fighter, who is identified only as “Hussein.” “They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syria-arming-the-rebels/syrian-rebels-describe-u-s-backed-training-in-qatar/

[JDPriestly]

1. So how do they determine who is Al Qaeda and who is "moderate"?

I don't think it is safe to get involved in Syria because we could find that we are mistaken and are training Al Qaeda.

[jakeXT]

2. No faith in CIA vetting ?

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others rose up. Why was that? Because The Inquisition kills its enemies in the open, and killed them while they were still unrepentant; in fact, it killed them because they were unrepentant. Men were dying because they would not abandon their true beliefs. Naturally all the glory belongs to the victim and all the shame to the Inquisitor who burned him.

We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that? When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.

In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.

~George Orwell, 1984

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