According to the US State Department, President Trump has signed off on the release of $6.6 million for Syria’s White Helmets, an NGO that operates as a rescue group in certain rebel-held parts of the country.
The White Helmets falsely claims it gets no funding from the US government. In reality the organization gets about 1/3 of its funding from the State Department. This is important because the White Helmets are often the lone source of questionable allegations which support US government allegations against the Syrian government.
Funding for the White Helmets was part of $200 million the Trump Administration froze in April. In May, the State Department said the funding was under “active review.” The funding freeze was done amid President Trump’s talk of withdrawing from Syria.
The State Department announcement that they were unfreezing the $6.6 million came with a statement that they “strongly support” the White Helmets. Officials did not say what would happen to the rest of the $200 million.
More money for terrorists. Let’s just stick some white hats, that is helmets, on them, and declare them good. Just salivating for some juicy battle for Idlib, to have more chemical weapons saga, more, more snd more! For as long as we tolerate appointees for any job in federal government to be advocates for any country outside US, we will never have US foreign policy. Prople whose careers revolved around lobbying, advocacy, funding of campaigns, projects or investments in foreign countries should be barred from holding any federal givernment office. Unfortunatelly, now it is thenopposite. Having ties to foreign countries is almost a pedigree required for high offices. And it is not just Israel.
Our truly stupid Israel worshipping leaders are despicable. Not enough focus is on the Israel Lobby’s role in pushing for continued support for the so called rebels.
Typical friday night news they don’t want you to see. Ready for the war ?
What will Russia do ? Trump is a fraud.
Evidently $6.6 Million is what it osts to stage a gas attack, it should occur soon now that it is funded.