Weapons for Syrian rebels?

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Comment by Tony Nuspl on July 8, 2020 at 9:50am

Seven years later, U.N. Investigators Find All Factions Committed War Crimes During Offensive in Idlib, Syria

“All sides likely committed war crimes. Children were shelled at school. Parents were shelled at the market. Patients were shelled at the hospital. Entire families were bombarded even while fleeing these attacks.”
~Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria.

video link to headline story on Democracy Now!:
https://youtu.be/_5BKZG-ITOA?t=514

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/8/headlines/un_investigators_fi...

Comment by Tony Nuspl on July 28, 2017 at 12:05pm

Four years later, the weapons-to-who-knows program has been ended.

In this interview, Congresswoman Tulsa Gabbard (D-Hawaii) explains how the neocon addiction to "regime change" (toppling Assad in this case) led the U.S. down this rabbit-hole.

Gabbard: Media misses point of CIA program Trump ended

Jul 24, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvnZ1WZw_4 

Comment by Tony Nuspl on September 17, 2013 at 8:29pm

Jane’s Report: About Half of Syria Rebels Are Jihadists  | 
Secularists Are Miniscule Part of Overall Rebellion  | 
by Jason Ditz, September 15, 2013  

http://news.antiwar.com/2013/09/15/janes-report-about-half-of-syria...

Report: Saudis Sent 1,200 Death-Row Inmates to Syria to Join Rebels
by Jason Ditz, September 16, 2013

http://news.antiwar.com/2013/09/16/report-saudis-sent-1200-death-ro...

Syrian Army rebels reject Russian chemical arms plan

by AFP, September 12, 2013

http://news.yahoo.com/free-syrian-army-rebels-reject-russian-chemic...

Witness to a Syrian Execution: “I Saw a Scene of Utter Cruelty”

Harrowing series of photographs of Islamic militants carrying out a public execution, by decapitation

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/12/witness-to-a-syrian-execution-i...