U.S., Britain cut aid to rebels in Syria
Source: CBS News
The United States and Britain have suspended all non-lethal assistance into northern Syria after Islamic extremist forces seized the headquarters and warehouses belonging to the opposition's Supreme Military Council (SMC), U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based anti-Assad monitoring group, said the Islamic Front had seized dozens of 'Shilka' anti-aircraft weapons and anti-tank rockets from the SMC arms stores in fighting on Friday and Saturday.
The Islamic Front's battlefield success in capturing the weapons stores could undermine SMC assurances to the United States that no supplies sent to their fighters would fall into the hands of Islamist brigades.
CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward said the move by the U.S. government could represent "the nail in the coffin" for the relatively moderate Free Syrian Army rebels once championed so publicly by the Obama administration.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-cuts-aid-to-syria-rebels-as-islamists-advance/
Good. Maybe those bastards can return to their homes in Saudi, Yemen and Pakistan, and leave the people of Syria to determine their own future.
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