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 CIA's Timber Sycamore operation

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Revealed by journalist Seymour Hersh, the project was funded by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar while "the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi's arsenals into Syria". The operation was not disclosed to US congressional intelligence committees as required by US ...

Those seven years have been a "disaster," he said, recalling a covert CIA operation called 'Operation: Timber Sycamore.' The US "started a war to overthrow a regime." "This is what I would call the 'Permanent State.' This is the CIA, this is the Pentagon wanting to keep Iran and Russia out of Syria, but we ...
All my fancy gadgets from the twenty-first century were alit yesterday when reports emerged that the United States, as the clownish President Donald Trump threatened, had launched cruise missile strikes against chemical weapons facilities in Syria. FLASHBACK: I recall the CIA operation Timber Sycamore ...
It was covert. It was Operation: Timber Sycamore, people can look it up, the CIA operation. Together with Saudi Arabia, still shrouded in secrecy... A major war effort shrouded in secrecy, never debated by Congress, never explained to the American people. Signed by President Obama. Never explained.".
As President Donald Trump tweets Syria provocations, it's almost a foregone conclusion the U.S. will escalate its military response to the ongoing civil war ... It was Timber Sycamore, you can look it up, the CIA operation, together with Saudi Arabia, still in secrecy, which is part of the problem in our country.”.
Since a direct US-led war on Syria would have been a violation of international law, Obama unleashed the CIA to operate covertly with Saudi Arabia and other countries. The CIA and Saudi Arabia teamed up in an operation code-named Timber Sycamore to back anti-Assad Syrian forces and jihadists from ...
Since a direct US-led war on Syria would have been a violation of international law, Obama unleashed the CIA to operate covertly with Saudi Arabia and other countries. The CIA and Saudi Arabia teamed up in an operation code-named Timber Sycamore to back anti-Assad Syrian forces and jihadists from ...
That forced me to focus on the rebel side, which meant being smuggled across the Turkish border into northern Syria. I did that for years, and even though I was ... Timber Sycamore was the code name for the CIA effort to arm the rebels, which came into being in late 2013. One of the first rebel groups to be ...
The program did have periods of success, including in 2015 when rebels using tank-destroying missiles, supplied by the C.I.A. and also Saudi Arabia, ... Given the code name Timber Sycamore, the covert program began slowly, but by 2015 the C.I.A.-backed rebel groups had made significant progress ...
But if that does not happen or if it fails to pacify Syria—a likely outcome—this would not alter an already-dismal strategic situation for the Syrian opposition, one that may well be acceptable to the United States ... Obama first authorized the CIA-run covert program, known as “Timber Sycamore,” in early-2013.


 

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