http://hk.epochtimes.com/news/2017-08-07/53606508
耗費10億美元,致力推翻敘利亞總統,這就是民主美國所幹的好事!
不過,夠鐘了,各位民主鬥士,美國終止援助,自己執生吧!
特朗普叫停CIA對敘行動
此為奧巴馬為敘利亞反對派推翻阿薩德政權提供幫助
凌雲綜合報道 2017年08月07日
美國總統特朗普叫停了中情局一個代號為「梧桐木」(Timber Sycamore)的秘密行動。這個耗資10億美元的秘密行動發起於2013年,是由時任總統奧巴馬授權進行,其目的是為敘利亞反對派推翻阿薩德政權提供幫助,但以失敗告終。
事實上,隨著敘利亞反抗軍在2016年底丟掉最大據點阿勒坡(Aleppo),代表著美國奧巴馬政府在敘利亞行動的失敗。俄羅斯與土耳其甚至把美國排除在外,進行外交協商,協調終止敘利亞內戰。
《華盛頓郵報》7月19日率先報道了這條消息,說美國總統特朗普與美國中情局局長Mike Pompeo及美國國家安全顧問H.R. McMaster商議後,決定叫停這項由CIA在敘利亞執行的秘密行動。
美國官員說,這項CIA秘密行動被中止,顯示特朗普政府有意在敘利亞問題上,與支持敘利亞政府的俄羅斯展開更多合作。同時,特朗普政府也已逐漸意識到,在尋求推翻阿薩德政權一事上,美國能發揮的作用有限。
事實上,《華郵》和《紐時》的文章都指,早在奧巴馬執政的末期,已經有白宮官員主張廢止這項CIA在敘利亞的秘密行動項目。
但曾在奧巴馬政府內任職的新美國安全中心(CNAS)中東安全項目主任Ilan Goldenberg則認為,特朗普叫停CIA項目的決定,「很可能是一種對現實的認可」
美國特種作戰司令部司令雷蒙德托馬斯三世上將在上月一場的會議上表示,叫停中央情報局的計劃是一個「非常艱難的決定」。「至少就我對該計劃以及叫停決定的了解來看,這絕不是為了安撫俄羅斯。」
目前美國對敘利亞事務的參與中,另一項對伊斯蘭國恐怖組織ISIS的打擊則進展順利。獲美國支持的敘利亞民主軍(SDF)已奪下ISIS大本營拉卡45%的區域。◇
(這裡是指美國支持的庫爾德族,他們既與ISIS作戰,又與美國的北約盟友土耳其作戰,土耳其認為美國支持庫爾德族並提供武器,對土耳其會構成威脅。)
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/tr ... ght/article/2009045
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump was shown a disturbing video of Syrian rebels beheading a child near the city of Aleppo. It had caused a minor stir in the press as the fighters belonged to the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, a group that had been supported by the CIA as part of its rebel aid program.
The footage is haunting. Five bearded men smirk as they surround a boy in the back of a pickup truck. One of them holds the boy’s head with a tight grip on his hair while another mockingly slaps his face. Then, one of them uses a knife to saw the child’s head off and holds it up in the air like a trophy. It is a scene reminiscent of the Islamic State’s snuff videos, except this wasn’t the work of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s men. The murderers were supposed to be the good guys: our allies.
Trump wanted to know why the United States had backed Zenki if its members are extremists. The issue was discussed at length with senior intelligence officials, and no good answers were forthcoming, according to people familiar with the conversations. After learning more worrisome details about the CIA’s ghost war in Syria—including that U.S.-backed rebels had often fought alongside extremists, among them al Qaeda’s arm in the country—the president decided to end the program altogether. . .