Elissa Smith, a spokesperson for the US Secretary of Defense, said on Monday that the airdrop took place in northern Syria on Sunday.
"This successful airdrop provided ammunition to Syrian groups whose leaders were appropriately vetted by the United States and have been fighting to remove ISIL from northern Syria," she said.
"The airdrop includes small arms ammunition. Due to operational security we will not have any further details about the groups that received these supplies, their location, or the type of equipment in the airdrop."...
aljazeera.com
22/10/15
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Das Pentagon hat die Lieferung von Munition für syrische Oppositionelle bestätigt, die gegen den Islamischen Staat (IS) kämpfen....
ReplyDeleteDie Ladung von rund 50 Tonnen Munition war in der Nacht zum Montag im Gouvernement Haseke im Norden Syriens mit Fallschirmen abgeworfen worden, wie der Nachrichtensender CNN berichtete.
„Die Koalitionskräfte haben am Sonntag eine Ladung über Nordsyrien abgeworfen, um die örtlichen Bodenkräfte zu versorgen, die gegen den IS kämpfen“, wurde Oberst Patrick Ryder vom Zentralen US-Kommando zitiert. Es handele sich um Munition für Handfeuerwaffen.
Zuvor hatte Pentagon-Chef Ash Carter erklärt, dass die USA ihre Programme zur Ausbildung von Kämpfern der Opposition revidieren könnten, die gegen Präsident Baschar al-Assad vorgehen. Nach Angaben des Weißen Hauses wird Washington mit jenen Gruppen kooperieren, die bereits gegen den IS kämpfen. Es gehe um die Versorgung der Opposition mit Ausrüstung, die es ihr gestatten würde, mit Unterstützung durch die USA aus der Luft effektiver zu handeln.
de.sputniknews.com
Rebels cannot focus on ISIL when Assad is in power: Obama...
ReplyDeleteThe United States’ “train and equip” program for rebels in Syria “did not work,” President Barack Obama admitted in a TV interview broadcast late on Oct. 11, adding that the existence of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad prevented rebels from focusing on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
His statements came at a time when Russian leader Vladimir Putin has once again implied that his aim in military operations in Syria is to stabilize al-Assad’s position.
Obama told CBS’ Steve Kroft that he had been skeptical of the plan to train 5,000 fighters to combat ISIL in Syria but he felt compelled to test the plan.
“I’ve been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside of Syria,” the president said.
“My goal has been to try to test the proposition. Can we... train and equip a moderate opposition that’s willing to fight ISIL? And what we’ve learned is that as long as al-Assad remains in power, it is very difficult to get those folks to focus their attention on ISIL,” he said.........hurriyetdailynews.com