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16220 Re: Obama administration abandons Pentagon program to train Syrian rebels
   clo I wouldn't train em either. Everybody we train and equip over the...
ribit   FFFT3   09 Oct 2015
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16216 Re: Obama administration abandons Pentagon program to train Syrian rebels
   We have the Russians doing it. No need for plumbers turned into warrio...
zzstar   FFFT3   09 Oct 2015
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Obama administration abandons Pentagon program to train Syrian rebels

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Obama administration abandons Pentagon program to train Syrian rebels
Friday, October 9, 2015 7:40 AM EDT

The Obama administration has ended the Pentagon’s $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels, administration officials said on Friday, in an acknowledgment that the beleaguered program had failed to produce any kind of ground combat forces capable of taking on the Islamic State in Syria.

Pentagon officials were expected to officially announce the end of the program on Friday, as Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter leaves London after meetings with his British counterpart, Michael Fallon, about the continuing wars in Syria and Iraq.
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