Al Nusra terrorist Abu Mohammed (Twitter: @abu_M0hammed) posts an account of his group's attack on the U.S. backed fighters heading for isis, resulting in the "capture of some of the members of "division 30".
North Aleppo - Nusra stops US snake plans for future Shaa... - justpaste.it
He says that Allah blessed their intelligence branch with the info even though the U.S. Government said they clearly told Nusra something along the lines of "these are our guys, they won't bother you and they're only fighting isil".
I don't even know what 50 U.S. Trained rebels were supposed to do to damage Isis exactly?.. Perhaps only spying agents or idk what honestly...
Below are excerpts of this piece:
#BringBackOurRebels: Despite Pentagon Denial, Reports Confirm That U.S.-Trained Syrian Rebels Were Kidnapped By Al-Qaeda Almost Immediately | PJ Tatler
Reports have claimed that the al-Qaida linked Al-Nusra Front has detained 18 opposition members, including Syrian Turkmen Colonel Nedim Hassan, -who is the leader of the U.S train-and-equip program-, and field commander Farhan Jasim near the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, which was refuted by the Pentagon. “While we will not disclose the names of specific groups involved with the Syria Train and Equip program
I can confirm that there have been no New Syrian Force personnel captured or detained.” Pentagon spokeswoman or Cmdr. Elissa Smith told Daily Sabah. It was claimed that the opposition members who were returning from the train-and-equip program from Turkey were cut in by the Nusra militants, and were allegedly detained on the grounds that they are cooperating with the U.S.
The flat-out denial by the Pentagon is being refuted this morning, both by a Reuters report and a statement issued by the group itself.
From the
Reuters report:
The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has abducted the leader of a U.S.-backed rebel group in north Syria, opposition sources and a monitoring group said, in a blow to Washington’s efforts to train and equip fighters to combat Islamic State.
A statement issued in the name of the group, “Division 30″, accused the Nusra Front of abducting Nadim al-Hassan and a number of his companions in a rural area north of Aleppo. It urged Nusra to release them. A Syrian activist and a second opposition source said most of the 54 fighters who have so far completed a U.S.-led train and equip programmed in neighboring Turkey were from Division 30. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that reports on the war, said
the men were abducted while returning from a meeting in Azaz, north of Aleppo, to coordinate efforts with other factions. The opposition source said they were abducted on Tuesday night.