It was revealed early last month that the US is training Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel fighters in neighboring Jordan. Today, reports are emerging that this training has been escalated, with an eye toward more fighting along the Jordan border.
Jordanian officials familiar with the process say that they are hoping to have 3,000 FSA officers trained by the end of April, a goal they initially didn’t envision reaching until this summer. The ultimate aim is to capture a “buffer zone” for rebels along the Jordan border.
“Buffer zones” have been openly endorsed by the US a lot, couched as a humanitarian endeavor, though always with the implication that the zones are going to be used as rebel bases of operations as opposed to demilitarized areas for civilians to flee the fighting.
For a long time there has been talk of establishing a buffer along the Turkish border in the far north, and this would be a secondary one in the south. Along with reports that Israel may invade to conquer a “buffer zone” of their own in Golan, Assad government territory could be getting small indeed.
At the same time, though Jordan’s military is familiar with this training program, it isn’t clear how on-board the Jordanian government is, with officials repeatedly expressing concerns that the Islamist-led rebels, should they prevail, may quickly expand the war in several directions, including riling up long-standing religious tensions in Jordan.
The proxy war run by the foreign terrorists against Assad is directed by the CIA. Assad must destroy them all. The aggressive gesture of the politicians in Washington have been widely condemned worldwide where people are telling N. Korea to give US a piece of its own medicine and bomb the aggressors . The dumb policy of the war criminlas in washington is condemned worldwide.
For those of you tired of this kind of pro-war drivel from the usual corporate criminal sources, here´s just one witness account to what kind of activities these US-trained “freedom fighters” of Ditz:
http://www.syrianews.cc/eyewitnesses-accounts-she…
[morderator’s note: I keep coming across comment claims that Jason Ditz refers to the Syrian rebels as “freedom fighters.” So far I’ve been unable to find any case in which he actually has. I’ll keep looking, but absent some evidence, at some point I’ll have to conclude that those making the claim are just lying. Lying about Antiwar.com’s reporters isn’t commenting, it’s trolling, and will be treated accordingly – TLK]
Are they using the 'state-of-the-art' private enterprise training base? If it wasn't made out of shoddies and prefab, the fifth-generation war training establishment in Jordan would be its 21st century rival to Petra.
It has put Jordan on the map as 'the place' to go for imaginary real-life war gaming and bang-bang practice.
Hi,
And nice to hear from the moderator. Whether or not Ditz refers to NATO´s merc´s as “freedom fighters” is beside the point. HIS references is every western propaganda outlet that actually directly or indirectly does and his personal comments,or “reports”, based on these is overtly pro-war and as you, the moderator, surely has noticed a cause for outrage among the readers. Why? Because this site clearly calls itself “Antiwar”.
Your tolerance seems to be extremely low if you don’t allow differences in opinion in this regard.
best regards/
Another “troll”.
[moderator’s note: I surely have noticed that a small group of individuals seem to be here not to discuss the issues, but to affect “outrage” that Antiwar.com doesn’t resolutely and without deviation parrot whatever line those individuals are peddling. You’re certainly entitled to your opinion, and it’s not my job to “allow” or not “allow” that opinion. Feel free to express it. But if your purpose is to use a faux “opinion” as camouflage for attacks on Antiwar.com itself, presumably pursuant to some other agenda, my job DOES include declining to provide you with a subsidized platform for doing so – TLK]