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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter 5-year-old civil war.
The fighting has intensified over the past two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other as they have maneuvered through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.
In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east.
"Any faction that attacks us, regardless from where it gets its support, we will fight it," said Maj. Fares Bayoush, a leader of Fursan al Haq.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-syria-militias-us-cia-islamic-state-20160326-story.html
underpants
(182,904 posts)-M. A. S. H. "The Army-Navy Game"
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0638422/
malaise
(269,187 posts)No words
enough
(13,262 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Bad news: There's more than one faction, so we're arming them all. Which, I guess, is good news for somebody.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)I'm guessing the speaker sees no irony in his words.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Germans contracted with Milo and the Americans to bomb the American airfield. A contract is s contract.
Chapter 22: Milo the Mayor
Yossarian pulled back from Orr adamantly, gazing with some concern and bewilderment at Mr. Etna instead of Mt. Vesuvius and wondering what they were doing in Sicily instead of Naples as Orr kept entreating him in a tittering, stuttering, concupiscent turmoil to go along with him behind the scheming ten-year-old pimp to his two twelve-year-old virgin sisters who were not really virgins and not really sisters and who were really only twenty-eight.
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Why do people come to Malta for eggs when theyre so expensive there?
Because theyve always done it that way.
Why dont they look for eggs in Sicily?
Because theyve never done it that way.'
Here and there a person fell and was trampled to death.
SOURCE:
https://ebarrosse9291.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/my-22-favorite-quotes-from-catch-22-and-then-some/