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In reply to the discussion: Seymour Hersh: US knowingly armed ISIS [View all]red dog 1
(32,339 posts)I don't think so.
The Russians started bombing anti-Assad fighters in Syria more than THREE months ago, (in mid-September).
In your post (# 11) which I replied to, you stated:
"When Russia started bombing ISIS, the US complained that the targets were "moderate rebels," Russia asked to coordinate intel on where the "moderate rebels" were so they could avoid them. The US refused."
Your reference for this was the Yahoo.com article; yet nowhere in that article does it say:
"The US refused."
(From your newest post, # 98):
"Yakovenko said he had a meeting at the Foreign Office in London last week in which he asked for intelligence to be shared on the location of Isis targets in Syria, but was rejected."
(Yakovenko goes on)
"But if among the FSA, there are divisions that are really ready to fight with Isis, who is our main enemy in Syria, and if you think there are people or commanders or other contacts which could be useful and to cooperate with them, we would be grateful for such information," he said. "We were again rejected."
These statements by Mr. Yakovenko were about a meeting last week at the Foreign Office in London, so Yakovenko's statement that "We were again rejected." was a reference to being "rejected" by the British, not the Americans.
Or am I missing something?