The Ultimate In Irony: Syrian Army Rolls Into Idlib With US Weapons Captured From ISIS | Zero Hedge
Description: An elite Syrian Army unit plans to use the US-manufactured weapons against jihadist rebels in the upcoming battle for Idlib province.
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# The Ultimate In Irony: Syrian Army Rolls Into Idlib With US Weapons Captured From ISIS

by Tyler Durden
Dec 21, 2017 11:15 AM
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Authored by Leith Fadel and Andrew Illingworth of Al-Masdar News,

The Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) Tiger Forces arrived in northern Hama this week with a big surprise from their previous operations in the Deir Ezzor Governorate. Units from the Tiger Forces were seen armed with US-manufactured weapons that were seized from the Islamic State (ISIS) during the two month long battle in Deir Ezzor.

According to a military source in Hama, the Syrian Army’s Tiger Forces are planning to use the US-manufactured weapons against the jihadist rebels in the upcoming battle for the Idlib Governorate. Among the US-manufactured weapons transferred to the Idlib front were a large number of TOW missiles that were previously supplied by Washington to the rebel forces in Syria before they were later sold to the Islamic State.

Screenshot via Conflict Armament Research video documentation of weapons recovered from ISIS initially supplied through a CIA program to arm anti-Assad militants.

The rapid defeat of Islamic State forces in eastern Syria over the last several months has seen the Syrian Arab Army capture untold quantities of military equipment from the terrorist group, most of which will likely go into the raising of new pro-government formations. As Syrian pro-government forces chased ISIS out of its main strongholds along the western shore of Euphrates River, the jihadist faction never had the time to re-locate its weapons stockpiles. The inevitable result of this was that such stockpiles came into the possession of the Syrian Army.

As video evidence has shown time and time again, the vast loot accumulated thus far comprises not only small arms, but also heavy weapons including mortars, howitzers, field guns, technicals, armored personnel carriers, main battle tanks and guided missiles.

https://twitter.com/TheArabSource/status/941481070419152896

Despite the fact that some Western-made weapon systems (particularly artillery and anti-tank missiles) were found, by far most of the equipment is of Soviet design (the CIA/Pentagon program to arm anti-Assad militants shipped mostly Soviet arms via Eastern Europe to US-backed groups). This means that the Syrian Army, itself possessing Soviet-made/Russian weapons, has compatible ammunition and spare parts to maintain the captured weapons and thus has the ability to press them into service.

Utilizing this huge captured arsenal, it is expected that the Syrian Army will raise new formations, not only within its own service, but also within pro-government militias – namely the National Defense Forces. In addition to raising new units of local fighters whose job it is to protect recently liberated territories throughout the provinces of Homs, Hama and Deir Ezzor, the army’s 5th Assault Corps formation is also predicted to expand.

To this end, the sheer amount of arms captured from ISIS ensures that many thousands of fresh recruits can be quickly provided with assault rifles and rocket launchers as well as the fire support assets their new units will require.

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RozKo Dec 21, 2017 11:17 AM

Did they get any TOW missles?

Volaille de Bresse RozKo Dec 21, 2017 11:19 AM

"Did they get any TOW missles?"

DICK! If you had read the article before posting your comment...?

"Among the US-manufactured weapons transferred to the Idlib front were a large number of TOW missiles that were previously supplied by Washington to the rebel forces in Syria before they were later sold to the Islamic State."

skbull44 Volaille de Bresse Dec 21, 2017 11:21 AM

And the MIC wins, again.

https://olduvai.ca

Killtruck skbull44 Dec 21, 2017 11:25 AM

"It's called blowback" - Ron Paul

"That's preposterous!" - Rudy Giuliani and the South Carolina audience

pods Killtruck Dec 21, 2017 11:36 AM

Well, not that it makes up for destroying their country, but at least the weapons we supplied with go to some good.

I wonder what the next plan is for the CIA? Probably full court press on Iran. That BS Hezbollah drug smuggling article seems to back that up.

pods

Oliver Klozoff pods Dec 21, 2017 12:15 PM

They'll keep ordering their proglodykes to keep pushing gun control, what else?

They are busy arming the worst factions across the world, their hometown minions are busy disarming the best.

Pumpkin Killtruck Dec 21, 2017 11:48 AM

"It's called blowback" - Ron Paul

It's called a plan.

Chupacabra-322 Killtruck Dec 21, 2017 11:52 AM

@ Kill,

Arming, funding & training I CIA SIS terror organizations since the days of the Mujahaideen.

The never ending Blowbsck PsyOp.

Son of Loki Chupacabra-322 Dec 21, 2017 11:57 AM

Driving Toyota pickups and wearing new Nikes from John McShame!

Chupacabra-322 Son of Loki Dec 21, 2017 12:02 PM

Gotta spread the Amerika popular culture Democracy as well.

EatYourCornTake... skbull44 Dec 21, 2017 11:25 AM

Man how did you guys type out this sharticle with putins dick and balls in your hands. The weapons are Russian made but provided by the us. You trolls aren't even trying anymore

totenkopf88 EatYourCornTakeyourPill Dec 21, 2017 11:31 AM

Yeah- it says that right in the article, genius

HominyTwin EatYourCornTakeyourPill Dec 21, 2017 11:33 AM

It wasn't as hard as typing your message while two Zio-Jews were gangbanging you, rotisserie-style. You should make them wear protection, next time.

07564111 HominyTwin Dec 21, 2017 11:35 AM

LoL !

Cloud9.5 EatYourCornTakeyourPill Dec 21, 2017 11:54 AM

The two machineguns in the screenshot are 12.7mm Kalashnikov PKM’s. They may have American weapons but those pictured in the article are Russian.

pods EatYourCornTakeyourPill Dec 21, 2017 12:16 PM

So crass. Why is if you people that think everyone's a Putin puppet not only are foul mouthed (which can be appreciated at times), you are just downright unfunny?

pods

Pliskin EatYourCornTakeyourPill Dec 21, 2017 12:19 PM

Have you not choked to death on that 'cut cock' by now...?

Soon, I hope!

Fuck you, u.s.a. and Israel!

Sub-human pieces of shit that you are!!

Don't bother replying, I care not what lesser, inferior animals write!

LawsofPhysics skbull44 Dec 21, 2017 11:28 AM

Indeed!!!

LOL!!! This is also covered in the latest Star Wars movie...

War is a racket!

Always has been and always will be!!!

"Full Faith and Credit"

same as it ever was!!!!

Consuelo skbull44 Dec 21, 2017 12:11 PM

Truth be known, the '#WINNING' meme should have been attached to the 'MIC' since Reagan...

Probably the longest $$$winning streak of any sector in market history...

BennyBoy Volaille de Bresse Dec 21, 2017 11:23 AM

Weapons from the CIA get around.

Chupacabra-322 BennyBoy Dec 21, 2017 12:05 PM

For the sake of Humanity around the World that Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopathic Agency needs to be permanently

Eliminated.

The National Security Elimination Act of 2018.

Would precisely achieve that objective.

Beowulf55 RozKo Dec 21, 2017 11:44 AM

First, read the story.

Second, provide intellectual insight in your comment.

Third, don't be a dick.

Urban Roman RozKo Dec 21, 2017 12:15 PM

Yes, that's what the article is about.

More to the point, do the 'rebels' get Russian countermeasure devices to mount on their Toyotas? Could make a dramatic difference in the effectiveness of the TOWs.

USA USA Dec 21, 2017 11:18 AM

Cool - Free Shit

Just like Chicago and Baltimore!

Akzed Dec 21, 2017 11:18 AM

"A conspiracy theory." -CNN

DiotheDog Dec 21, 2017 11:20 AM

In other news, California's Gun Buy-Backs are swamped with US Manufactured firearms

Akzed Dec 21, 2017 11:21 AM

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

Vol. 36 No. 8 · 17 April 2014
pages 21-24 | 5870 words

The Red Line and the Rat Line Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdo?an and the Syrian rebels

If one has been paying attention, "the Ultimate in Irony" is not the best term to describe this find.

Blankone Dec 21, 2017 11:26 AM

"Utilizing this huge captured arsenal, it is expected that the Syrian Army will raise new formations, not only within its own service, but also within pro-government militias "

Have the Syrians been so poorly supplied that the lack of arms have kept them from outfitting additional troops who have been standing in line to participate? What the heck Putin.

Getting the TOW's out of the hands of the enemy is good, but the Syrians should have been supplied with the Russian equivalent, if they were not.

shovelhead Blankone Dec 21, 2017 11:56 AM

Shit cost money.

Only US taxpayers give shit away for free.

trailer park boys Dec 21, 2017 11:27 AM

'US weapons captured from ISIS'. More like 'US weapons given to ISIS, via 'moderate' rebels'. The US knew there was no such thing as a moderate rebel. The arms shipments were meant for ISIS all along. The 'moderate rebel' story was just a way to deflect fault - the weapons ended up in ISIS hands 'accidently on purpose'. How else to explain a stronger ISIS after 2 years of US and Nato 'at war' with ISIS, when the Russians only took 2 months to blow ISIS away.

Stan522 Dec 21, 2017 11:28 AM

This IS NOT Irony, but instead proof that obama and the CIA put weapons in the hands of our supposed enemies. These same enemies fire upon our US Soldiers all the while politician's play the charade game that makes it look like we are all in on defeating an enemy.....

We, the United States government created both al qeada and ISIS. The proof is there, but for some odd reason, the media chooses to ignore the solid evidence and instead carries the lie.......

WAKE UP PEOPLE and stop this madness......!!!!

totenkopf88 Stan522 Dec 21, 2017 11:33 AM

This is nothing compared to the weapons systems we give to the terrorists in Israel

Cry Baby Moe totenkopf88 Dec 21, 2017 11:35 AM

who are you refering to, hamas, plo, or hizbulla?

taoJones Cry Baby Moe Dec 21, 2017 12:02 PM

Seriously? If Hamas or PLO had ANY real weapons, you think the IDF would be the bullies they are, beating up & torturing unarmed Palestinians?

When was the last time we heard about ANY civilians deaths in Isreal?

Compared to the hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere!

For all we know, the supposed "rockets", supposedly fired by Hamas are harmless fireworks...

Pliskin Cry Baby Moe Dec 21, 2017 12:15 PM

Troll Alert!

buzzsaw99 Dec 21, 2017 11:31 AM

Things are sometimes confusing. ln Vietnam it was pretty confusing for Rambo and me... [/trautman, first blood]

Deep Snorkeler Dec 21, 2017 11:33 AM

Guerilla/Asymmetric Warfare Axioms

1. your enemy will supply you with all the weapons and materiel you need

2. the people are the sea, you are the fish

3. the enemy attacks, you retreat. He retreats, you attack

4. you have time-space, he does not

5. your enemy contains within himself all the elements of self-defeat

Cry Baby Moe Dec 21, 2017 11:34 AM

"Among the US-manufactured weapons transferred to the Idlib front were a large number of TOW missiles that were previously supplied by Washington to the rebel forces in Syria before they were later sold to the Islamic State."

If the rebels defeat the syrians and take the guns they can then sell it to the rebels who can lose them to isis and then isis can sell them to the syrians and...

everyone still following?

Rockatanski Dec 21, 2017 11:56 AM

does anyone remember the arms depo in kuwait that was cleared out after one of the wars over there? i dont recall that those weapons were ever recovered.

what a convenient way to get arms into the hands of the CIA's proxy army.

European American Dec 21, 2017 11:34 AM

It's the Hard Working American Tax Payers, most up to their eyeballs in debt, that knowingly and unknowingly, who are financially supporting conflicts around the globe for the Zionist Jew cartel.

Cry Baby Moe European American Dec 21, 2017 11:42 AM

shaddup. enough with israel. they dont contol the world...

Dr. Acula Cry Baby Moe Dec 21, 2017 11:47 AM

Are you jidf or just a newfag?

44magnum Cry Baby Moe Dec 21, 2017 12:02 PM

According to the BBC, a furious Sharon turned toward Peres, saying:

“Every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”

Cafe Baghdad Dec 21, 2017 11:35 AM

As Dustin Hoffmans character Mr Fokker explained its the CLIA, the central lack of intelligence agency

unless of course the plan was to arm Assad all along, via a more expensive, complicated route

Hillbillies

NumbersUsa Dec 21, 2017 11:38 AM

The Israel in the Bible IS not the satanic abomination that is there now- You need to not only get over it, but you need to distinguish between good & evil, the Devil ordained vs God ordained. You read those scriptures and I mean read them all and study them. The prophesy of zion is only in Christ the son of God. Not through or by a corrupt bunch of proud Christ killing devilish fanatics called jew supremacists.

You Christian-zionists are dumber than dumb and have been suckered by these satanic talmudic judaizers by their use of the scofield Bible that was financed by the jews during the late 1800's. The whole dispensationalism creed has holes so big in it that you drop in to hell when you gaze upon it.

Greatest Story Never Told: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvhuO9axoQ, You will never be the same !

Cry Baby Moe NumbersUsa Dec 21, 2017 11:47 AM

you should also do italics and underline, it makes your spam more readable...

Grouchy-Bear Cry Baby Moe Dec 21, 2017 11:50 AM

No better yet, all capital letters...

shovelhead Grouchy-Bear Dec 21, 2017 12:00 PM

Yup.

Real drama queens go for bolded all caps. It tells people you're really smart too.

Dr. Acula Cry Baby Moe Dec 21, 2017 11:55 AM

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gcjohns1971 Dec 21, 2017 11:38 AM

Old news.

US tanks weigh 72 tons and are not amphibious. Takes a significant port facilty with a larger than normal crane to move.

If they were supplied to ISIS directly, then what port was used?

Alternatively, might it not be reasonable to assume these are the same US weapons ISIS captured from the Iraqi's?

All the equip from the US in the Iraq war stayed there.

This is news recycled from 2012.

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