As TGP previously reported, President Trump recently shut down the CIA’s program to arm and train Syrian ‘rebels’ who were fighting the Syrian government. Or as we like to plainly say, Trump shut down Obama’s funding of terrorists in Syria.
It is now being reported that President Trump saw a video of a Syrian boy being beheaded by ‘Syrian rebels’ who were supposedly our ‘allies’, which ultimately prompted him to end the program.
The Weekly Standard:
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.
Trump saw this video I tweeted in June of CIA rebels killing a child & shut them down https://t.co/RTI9Dsp4Urhttps://t.co/k3vNbF1VrS
— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) August 1, 2017
