{"id":64811,"date":"2016-03-14T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64811"},"modified":"2016-03-14T03:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T07:19:22","slug":"al-qaeda-takes-weapons-money-from-us-backed-syrian-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64811","title":{"rendered":"al Qaeda takes weapons, money from US-backed Syrian rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2016-03-13\/al-qaida-seizes-weapons-bases-from-us-backed-syrian-rebels\">Associated Press<\/a> reports the least-surprising news of the week; members of the al-Qaeda-backed al Nusra front has swept through at least one town held by US-backed &#8220;moderates&#8221; of the Syrian rebellion and took the money and their weapons that were supplied to them by the United States;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FSA&#8217;s 13th Division said on Twitter Sunday that Nusra fighters were going door to door in the town of Maarat Numan and arresting its cadres after Nusra, alongside fighters from the Jund al-Aqsa faction, seized Division 13 posts the night before.<\/p>\n<p>Seven Division 13 fighters died in the clashes.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said Nusra seized anti-tank missiles, armored vehicles, a tank, and other arms from the division, which has received weapons, training, and money from the U.S. government. It said Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa detained 40 fighters from the division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like you and I tried to tell the White House before they hatched this brilliant plan, is it? It happened last year, too. So, now, since there actually are US boots on the ground, there are actually ground engagements, our forces can rest assured that they&#8217;re facing the best equipment that US taxpayer dollars can buy.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, it looks like they&#8217;re reciprocating; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/03\/13\/bomb-sniffing-dog-discovers-2-hellfire-missiles-bound-for-portland.html\">CNBC<\/a>, bomb-sniffing dogs in Serbia discovered US Hellfire missiles on an AirSerbia flight bound for Portland. So, see we&#8217;re getting a good return on our investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports the least-surprising news of the week; members of the al-Qaeda-backed al Nusra &hellip; <a title=\"al Qaeda takes weapons, money from US-backed Syrian rebels\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64811\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">al Qaeda takes weapons, money from US-backed Syrian rebels<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}