Jan 3, 2017
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well one week ago I told you that
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national media is not giving you the
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full story about what is happening in
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Syria specifically that the Free Syrian
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Army and the so-called Syrian rebels who
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have now lost control of Eastern Aleppo
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are not freedom fighters they are in
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fact aligned with terror organizations
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and while tens of thousands of you have
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voiced their support some other media
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are asking me where's the proof tonight
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the proof in a reality check you won't
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see anywhere else
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well as i told you national media has
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framed the fight in Syria and for Aleppo
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as anti-assad rebels against Syrian
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President Bashar al-assad what they do
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not say is that throughout Syria there
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are really only two groups fighting
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against Assad Isis and al-qaeda in
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fairness that is a crude assessment in
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reality there are dozens of small
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malicious and factions fighting Assad
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the Free Syrian Army it's always been
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made up of many different smaller groups
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for the for the sake of explaining how
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jihadis are actually the ones fighting
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this on we're going to refer to the Free
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Syrian Army here as if it is one group
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the free syrian army was formed in july
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of 2011 but within just one year there
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were already widespread reports that
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al-qaeda in Syria had infiltrated in
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2012 i became the first reporter to
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question President Obama directly about
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the US Army a group that had members of
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al-qaeda there's some concern about the
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u.s. funding the a Syrian opposition
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when there are a lot of reports that
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al-qaeda is kind of heading up that
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opposition
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how do you justify the two well I share
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that concern and so what we've done is
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to say we will provide non-lethal
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assistance to Syrian opposition
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leadership that are committed to a
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political transition committed to
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a an observance of human rights while
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there were non jihadist rebels in the
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original free syrian army they did not
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last long
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one year later in 2013 the CIA began
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delivering weapons to those Syrian
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rebels the shipments began streaming
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into the country over the past two weeks
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along with separate deliveries by the
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State Department of vehicles and other
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gear a flow of material that marks a
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major escalation of the u.s. role in
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syria's civil war that was the
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washington post in 2013
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but things only got worse because while
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the weapons were flowing in well so
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we're jihadist and by sep tember of 2013
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london-based global defense consultancy
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group IHS Jane's reported that 10,000 of
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the estimated 100,000 insurgent fighters
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were linked to al-qaeda another thirty
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to thirty-five thousand belong to
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powerful factions that were fighting for
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an Islamic state within a larger Middle
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East Calif it stretching from the
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Atlantic to the indian ocean now in
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addition to that that report showed at
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least a further thirty thousand
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moderates belonging to groups that have
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an Islamic character that means that by
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late 2013 only 25 to 30,000 so-called
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rebel fighters were part of secular
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nationalist groups again that's
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twenty-five to thirty percent of the
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rebel force that could be considered
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friendly to the west seventy to
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seventy-five percent of forces against
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Assad 2013george honest but that didn't
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stop the u.s. from sending funding and
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sending weapons and with some members of
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Congress like Senator Rand Paul
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insisting that these rebels were jihadis
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by 2015 the u.s. committed five hundred
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million dollars to find and train
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moderate rebels instead by September a
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major blow 3,000 of the few remaining
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FSA fighters they defected from the
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organization they proclaim their
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allegiance to Isis those fighters belong
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to multiple brigades that formed the
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conglomeration of the FSA also in 2015
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the Pentagon publicly admitted that an
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additional 70 us train Syrian rebels
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surrendered a weapon stockpile to
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al-nusrah fighters from Division 30 they
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surrendered to the al-qaida-affiliated
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group after crossing into Syria over the
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Turkish border and as for that 500
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million dollar moderate rebel training
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program
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that was halted a week later when the
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Pentagon admitted it had only trained
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four or five fighters not 400 or four
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thousand four or five and it was in 2015
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when the International Business Times
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reported that the moderate movement in
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Syria could be officially considered
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dead as of last week when the last us
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back rebel faction disbanded its members
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joining extremist groups such as the
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nusrah front the al-qaeda option in the
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country some of the men joined a group
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called the Livan front a coalition of
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rebel militias that also have ties to
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al-qaeda and again that was 2015 and yet
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through 2016 weapons and funding from
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the West continued in September of this
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year 2016 the u.s. delivered 3,000 tons
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of weapons and ammo two fighters in
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Syria including rocket launchers and
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anti-tank guided weapon systems so what
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you need to know it is a fact that since
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2012 those so-called moderate rebels in
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Syria have been absorbed into al Qaeda
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groups or pledged allegiance to Isis and
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for the past year the moderates they
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have been gone so when media only calls
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these groups freedom fighters and yet
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these fighters have pledged themselves
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to al-qaeda and to Isis the no make no
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mistake they are not looking to make
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Syria free they are looking to enslave
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it as they have in so many other places
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that's reality check let's talk about
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