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President Obama, and his former Secretary of State, now Democratic hopeful for the Presidential election of 2016, Hillary Clinton, have teamed up with Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona in a trio of staunch supporters of the Free Syrian Army.

From the outset of the March 2011 crisis in Syria those 3 have supported the armed opposition in Syria, who call themselves the FSA. President Obama ordered the CIA to fund, train, support and assist the FSA from their inception.

Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, ordered the weapons stockpile, confiscated from the regime change in Libya, to be shipped to Turkey and sent directly under CIA supervision to the FSA in Syria. Even now, as Clinton tries for the job at the White House, she continues to defend and support the FSA, who she calls “moderate rebels”. In fact, she has made disparaging remarks about her former boss, President Obama, as she blames him for not bombing Syria long ago, and not giving more support to the FSA.

Senator John McCain, himself a war veteran and military enthusiast, personally traveled to Syria, passing through international borders illegally, in violation of international laws, to meet with Selim Idriss, then commander of the FSA in their headquarters near Idlib, Syria in May 2013.

Senator McCain continued to be the chief lobbyist for the FSA in Congress and fought long and hard to obtain the hundreds of millions of dollars from the American taxpayers to support the FSA. He also pushed through programs to send special weapons to the FSA.

Once Russia began bombing terrorists in Syria in late 2015, Senator McCain complained that the US backed and trained FSA were being bombed. The Obama administration and Hillary Clinton both demanded that the FSA were not to be bombed, and were in fact the “moderate rebels” who have been supported and aided by USA from the beginning.

Are the FSA moderate? Do the actions of the FSA uphold American values? Would most Americans be proud of their tax dollars being used to benefit the FSA?

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/30011/

“A member of the Free Syrian Army in the Latakia front wrote me: “I support Nusra because they fight beside us.”

As anyone will tell you, the Free Syrian Army is a marginal force at this point in war, especially Aleppo. Their exploitations have been documented, including attacks on civilians, coercion, and the use of child soldiers. Peter Oborne, a respected British journalist, recently said to Russia Today that the people of Aleppo view the oppositions presence in Aleppo as an occupation. These are the same groups that Clinton pledges her support to.



The myth of the ‘moderate rebellion’ has been so dispelled that I’ve rarely heard of any candidate for President calling on support for these factions besides Clinton.”

The above reference to Nusra is to the Takfiri group called in full Jibhat al Nusra, who is on the US list of terrorist groups. This means that the group supported by President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sen. John McCain are allied with Jibhat al Nusra, an outlawed terrorist group by US law.

Tony Cartalucci (Land Destroyer Report) comments that “It was recently pointed out that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) currently arming, funding, and commanding entire brigades of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) is designated an Al Qaeda affiliate by the United Nations pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), in addition to being listed by both the US State Department and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf) as a foreign terrorist organization and a proscribed terrorist organization respectively.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/magazine/theo-padnos-american-journalist-on-being-kidnapped-tortured-and-released-in-syria.html?_r=0

Theo Padnos is an American journalist, who on Oct. 2, 2012 arrived in Antakya, Turkey. He met a group of Syrians who said they were supplying the FSA and was willing to take the journalist along with them. They arrived at the FSA headquarters in Aleppo, and the FSA turned him over to the Jibhat al Nusra who was headquartered at the Aleppo Children’s Hospital. He was held as a prisoner and severely beaten and tortured for almost 2 years before finally being freed.

The FSA have a long and documented history of killing journalists, both foreign and Syrian. The FSA are responsible for selling the American humanitarian aid worker Kayla Mueller to ISIS, also in Aleppo, and also from a hospital, very similar to the Padnos story. Kayla was raped and murdered.

In 2012, the French journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed in Homs by the FSA.

In 2012, Anhar Kochneva, a reporter with Russian and Ukrainian dual nationality, was kidnapped and threatened with death by the FSA, but she was later released.

On June 27, 2012 the FSA gunned down three Syrian journalists and four guards. Sami Abu Amin, Mohammad Zeid and Chammah Kohl worked for theAl-Ikhbariyasatellite TV channel.

The FSA have killed dozens of journalists. Adonis Nasr, field reporter in northern Latakia, at the village of Kinsabba, was killed by the FSA on February 19, 2016.

The current cease fire in Syria and the upcoming peace meeting for Syria are hopeful signs that the war may be ending. The Syrian people want live in peace once more, and hope that America’s Syrian policy will be modified to include rebuilding, instead of destruction. It will be up to the American voters to decide if they can support a President who has supported terrorists.