First Syria rebels armed and trained by CIA 'on way to battlefield'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10283758/First-Syria-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-CIA-on-way-to-battlefield.html\\\

During a meeting at the White House, the president assured Senator John McCain that after months of delay the US was meeting its commitment to back moderate elements of the opposition.

Mr Obama said that a 50-man cell, believed to have been trained by US special forces in Jordan, was making its way across the border into Syria, according to the New York Times.

The deployment of the rebel unit seems to be the first tangible measure of support since Mr Obama announced in June that the US would begin providing the opposition with small arms.

Congressional opposition delayed the plan for several weeks and rebel commanders publicly complained the US was still doing nothing to match the Russian-made firepower of the Assad regime.

Mr McCain has been a chief critic of the White House's reluctance to become involved in Syria and has long demanded that Mr Obama provide the rebels with arms needed to overthrow the regime.

This comes as a surprise......geez.

Just information you dumbass ...are you so bored you have to make asinine comments on every post made.

So people are supposed to believe that someone snapped their fingers and this group just magically appeared. Huh?

It takes YEARS to make one competent SOF member in the US military. How well do you think these misfits will do once under fire?

They did a great job in Libya......the CIA has been doing a great job the last decade, and they have their fingers all over the Arab Spring.

They? What would you know?

Libya was a done deal before Obama started or continued his leading from behind.

They? What would you know?


More than you would guess.