Al-Qaeda “Robs” US-Armed Syrian Rebels (Again), Takes TOWs, Ammo, Tank

• Al Qaeda is, of course, the terror army of the CIA. The idea that Al CIAda robbed US armed Syrian rebels is NONSENSE. They are one and the same. Ie. Syrian rebels are Al Qaeda.
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• Al-Qaeda Robs US-Armed Syrian Rebels (Again), Takes TOWs, Ammo, Tank
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com  
  In September, a funny thing happened.
  Gen. Lloyd Austin, head of the U.S. Central Command and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth ended up in front of Congress to discuss how the now infamous “train and equip” program for Syrian rebels was going. Specifically, they were asked how many of the fighters that had participated in the program were still operating on the ground.
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  Austin’s answer: “four or five.”
  That was just slightly lower than the 5,400 that The Pentagon had hoped to field by the end of 2015, but hey, at least both figures have a four and a five in them. “Let’s not kid ourselves, that’s a joke. This is just a total failure,” Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said.
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  Well, a few days after Austin and Wormuth’s embarrassing testimony, whatever remained of the US-trained rebels reportedly got robbed (or we suppose “extorted” is the better term) by al-Nusra when, according to a statement by Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, the fighters surrendered a quarter of their issued equipment including six pickup trucks and some ammunition to the al-Qaeda affiliate in exchange for “safe passage” from Turkey into Syria. 
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  After that revelation, the train and equip program was mothballed.
  Before that, in July, al-Nusra kidnapped the commander of US-trained Division 30, and several of his compatriots. “We warn soldiers of (Division 30) against proceeding in the American project,” Nusra said in a statement distributed online. “We, and the Sunni people in Syria, will not allow their sacrifices to be offered on a golden platter to the American side.”
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  Well on Sunday, US-backed rebels suffered another humiliating setback when al-Nusra effectively took over Maarat Numan where Division 13 – one of the first “vetted” groups to be given access to American-made TOWs – maintains a presence.
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  “Al-Qaida militants swept through a rebel-held town in northern Syria in a display of dominance Sunday, arresting U.S.-backed fighters and looting weapons stores belonging to the Free Syrian Army,” AP reports. “The FSA’s 13th Division said on Twitter Sunday that Nusra fighters were going door to door in the town of Maarat Numan and arresting its cadres after Nusra, alongside fighters from the Jund al-Aqsa faction, seized Division 13 posts the night before.”
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