Timber Sycamore
Timber Sycamore was a CIA program, supported by the secret services of several Arab countries, to train various groups who faced the Syrian army in the Syrian Civil War . Beginning in 2013, the militias received training on various weapons, and there was support from arms deliveries, especially from Saudi Arabia and Qatar . The then US President Barack Obama is said to have authorized the program in 2013 in secrecy. Timber Sycamore is not to be confused with another CIA program designed to support Syrian forces in the fight against the terrorist militia IS . Timber Sycamore, in contrast, was directed against the Syrian government and the Syrian army.
Apparently, the US government temporarily had weapons delivered to Syrian rebels via the Ramstein military base without the corresponding approval from the federal government . The US and Saudi Arabia have bought Russian-made weapons and ammunition for hundreds of millions of dollars in Eastern Europe and transported them to the war zones of Syria , Iraq and Afghanistan .
This support included ammunition , small-caliber weapons, including rifles , rocket-propelled grenades, and anti-tank missiles, as well as funding for salaries that commanders could use to recruit or keep fighters .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ CIA Arms for Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market, Officials Say
- ↑ US Relies Heavily on Saudi Money to Support Syrian Rebels
- ^ Frederik Obermaier, Paul-Anton Krüger Munich / Cairo: Delicate freight from Ramstein . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 12, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 20, 2018]).
- ↑ mdr.de: Middle East wars stimulate Bulgarian arms industry | MDR.DE . ( mdr.de [accessed June 20, 2018]).
- ^ Faysal Itani: The End of American Support for Syrian Rebels Was Inevitable . In: The Atlantic . July 21, 2017 ( theatlantic.com [accessed June 21, 2018]).