The Pentagon "launched" in Syria another batch of trained oppositionists
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A new group of Pentagon-trained "moderate" oppositionists in the amount of about 70 people entered Syria from Turkey, reports Look citing US Central Command.
"With the support of the (international) coalition, the new Syrian forces will fight alongside selected opposition forces and use the training and equipment obtained through the respective programs to strengthen the work of these larger units."- says the release of the command.
The infusion of new "moderate" reinforcements came against the backdrop of harsh criticism from Congress against the Pentagon, which, according to Senator McCain and his colleagues, completely failed the first stage of the training program, ineptly spent a lot of US dollars on it.
Let us remind that in total, according to the program, 7 thousand people should be trained and sent to Syria. For these purposes, the country's budget allocated $ 500 million. The first batch of trained militants (54 people), previously sent to the SAR, almost completely "disappeared" without a trace before the start of hostilities - someone surrendered, someone simply fled, and some tried to go back to Turkey. The American command does not know exactly how many people from the group remained on the battlefield. At the hearing in Congress, the numbers "4 or 5" were called.
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