When U.S Funded, Armed, And Trained Moderate Opposition Fighters, Where These “Trainees” Disappeared To?

Syrian rebels fighters at an air base in Idlib, image provided by New York Times

The devastating revelations that the United States is funding a mercenary army to overthrow Assad is nothing new especially to researchers and all those who are paying attention to occurrence of events in the Muslim world.

The CIA has been arming Syrian rebels for years in the name of “Jihadist”. The Pentagon admits paying modest stipends to the “Syrian moderates Jihadists”, it hopes to field in the fight against Islamic State militants, the military confirmed. The US is funding jihadist terrorists and mercenaries to work alongside ISIS and al-Qaeda (if they are not members of these organizations already) to overthrow the secular government of Bashar al-Assad. We are talking about money that the terrorist savages are accepting for their services in barbarity and treason on behalf of the agenda of the global political terrorism.

Even more bizarre incident is where fighters abandon the mission after having received funds and training from the US military to form allegiance with another shrouded organization with mischievous motives. Why does the US continually sending deadly weapons to Middle East? Why making things more chaotic than they were before and still convince the world that they are on the verge of success on their mission of “war on terror”?

It seemingly clear that the policy that backed sending more deadly weapons into the Middle East, the fact that the support of the policy is not clear, one cannot rule out the possibility of misleading vicious motives -  a trap set by machinery of militarism in Jihad disguise, it is a militarism of death and destruction of innocent. The most common example of inventing new group like “Syrian Moderates forces”, the plan to train and equip the opposition in Syrian or any part of Middle East, in what they claimed strengthen the opposition is best strategy to weaken the extremism of ISIS and solve Syria’s crisis. It is just ridiculous for anyone to deny modern terrorism is not a vicious ideology of violence that has devised to perpetuate itself between "Terror" and "War on Terror".

The U.S. is already training hundreds of vetted rebels in Jordan, and equipping them with weapons. Most of those rebels are fighting under the umbrella of the “Free Syrian Army “(FSA) -- the first major opposition group to form and fight President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria in 2011. 

Despite the fact that the US government has admitted that it was funding opposition but  how does it differ from funding dreaded terrorists such as Al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS and other related terror organizations in Syria - directly and indirectly?

Boko Haraam recruits receives stipends in their fight against education in Northern Nigeria:

 Thomas Fessy  from BBC News met some young men who told him why they joined the militant group. They confided in him that Boko Haram recruits "were promised lots of money".  

 Educational institutions represent the most targets for potential of terrorists’ attacks by Boko Haraam insurgents. They want to discourage young northerners away from getting adequate knowledge, to restrict them from exploring their individual ability for the future. They want to discourage our younger ones from participating into Nigerian work force. A report by Human Rights Watch states,  Boko Haraam terrorist group’s attacks on schools in the north-east Nigeria have devastating impact on education, leaving nearly 1 million children with little or no access to school. Ideologically, Boko Haraam is opposed to western education.

 Assaults on educational institutions, reflects the groups belief that westernization begins at schools and such education is un-Islamic. Specifically educating girls is viewed as a sin. While boys have been attacked either to kidnap and force them into fighting for the terrorist group, or kill them under assault.

 Attacking schools pose as an ideological message intend to restrict center for learning in a particular region or community. Interference of today’s academic system by some mysterious ideological sects signals danger for the socio-economic advancement of the affected areas. Many attacks were intended to kill, disrupt, destroy classes and intimidate communities.

His Royal Highness, Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi's remarks when confronted about the issue of backwardness in the Northern Nigeria:

“There was a documented policy of the British when they came that Northern Nigeria should not be educated, it was documented. It was British colonial policy. I have the document. I have published articles on it. That if you educate the Northerner you will produce progressive Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in Egypt and India. So do not educate them. It was documented.”

According to the Pentagon, Syrian “rebels” being trained and “vetted” by the United States are receiving “compensation” to the tune of anywhere between $250 to $400 per month to act as America’s proxy forces in the Middle East.

Reuters reports that the payment levels were confirmed by the Pentagon and also that the Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Navy Commander Elissa Smith both separately admitted the fact that these “new” terrorists are receiving a stipend. Reuters also reported on alleged obstacles the Pentagon claims it is facing regarding the ability to train the death squad volunteers due to a lack of ability to “vet” them appropriately as well as a bizarre incident where fighters abandon the mission after having received training from the US military. The reason provided by the Pentagon was that the fighters did not want to sign a contract to avoid fighting Assad. But, in the same report, the Pentagon states that there was no such contract – only one requiring them to “respect human rights” and “the rule of law,” so the reason provided for the disappearance of these fighters lacks legitimacy. One can only speculate as to where these “trainees” disappeared to.

Of course, “human rights” and the “rule of law” have never been concerns before, even as the United States has funded, armed, trained, and directed jihadists on the ground from the very beginning of the Syrian crisis. Neither has there been any concern over the presence of “moderate” rebels that have never actually existed in Syria.

Documents show Al-Qaeda Involvement from beginning – No Moderates Rebels fighters:

Reports by Western mainstream media claim that Al-Qaeda, ISIL was not invented by CIA or any other such outfit, as the ridiculous conspiracy theories would have it. In addition, that any suggestion that United States and NATO were supporting ISIS was just conspiratorial invention. United States own Defense Intelligence Agency was recently forced to release and declassify documents which proven that the US knew that the “rebellion” was made up of Al-Qaeda and Nusra forces. The DIA documents also show that the US was supporting all of these efforts. In reality, of course, the US was promoting and directing the Syrian crisis. The documents states the Salafist – the Muslim Brotherhood, the Nusra forces and Al-Qaeda are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria. These organizations and similar groups were attempting to create a dogmatic political ideology inspired by concepts with inherently inclination to extremism and the US is behind this mercenary army.  It should be remembered that these fighters certainly never have held such territory and expanding further if they don’t have strong military assistance.

“Politicalized Jihadism” evolves in Muslim environment, where societies are broken down and living through civil wars: Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Syria are breeding grounds for jihadists.

 World powers remain divided on Syrian crisis; this is where the key countries stand:

The conflict in Syria has drawn in major global powers, supporting and opposing President Bashar al-Assad. Russia is one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most important international backers and the survival of the regime is critical to maintaining Russian interests in the country. The US supports Syria's main opposition alliance, the National Coalition, and provides military assistance to "moderate" rebels.

The Western world, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition in Syrian political crisis; while Russia, China, and Iran support the regime; innocent Syrian citizens are the fatalities caused by war, directly and indirectly. 

The world communities are watching the dramatic events without giving it a thought. There has never been any concern over the presence of “Moderate rebels” that have never actually existed in Syria.

Don’t blame Islam for terrorist attacks. Islam as religion does not back or explain the ideology and the crimes of ISIS or similar groups that emerge for nefarious activities.

In addition, let us not forget that this is a digital era, any psycho with a Twitter account can tweet on behalf of ISIS or in support of ISIS bombing any corner in Europe or America. And, precisely the same tweets can be used to denounce Islam by anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamophobic propaganda machines, their main target are the mainstream Muslims, they further fuel the fire of xenophobic hatred, resentment, sometimes physical assault. Now the best example of unjust aggression towards Muslims was speeches delivered by American Republican candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz; didn’t they know about America’s involvement on raising “moderate terrorist” that later turn to monsters?   

Perhaps we need to demand accountability on all horrific activities around us in order to set the record straight.

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