Telegraph UK reports that US weapons are falling into the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda

All this was to be expected from an Obama/Kerry lead war.

Zerohedge summarises The Telegraphs findings nicely…

Rather stunningly, the Syrian Revolutionary Front, one of the largest “vetted, moderate” US-backed rebel forces, has been effectively wiped out; and has handed over all their weapons and bases including US-provided anti-tank missiles and GRAD rockets. Simply out, “as a movement, the SRF is effectively finished,” but apart from that US foreign policy is ‘nailing it’. As The Telegraph concludes, for the US, the weapons they supplied falling into the hands of al-Qaeda is a realisation of a nightmare.

Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda.

As al-Qaeda, ISIS and all other terrorists in the Middle East thank US taxpayers for their shiny, brand new weapons they just had gifted to them, Antiwar.com breaks down the ‘freedom fighter’ surrender, and the new reality facing Obama and Co. in the mess that has become Iraq and Syria:

The US and its allies were relying on Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary Front to become part of a ground force that would attack the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

For the last six months the Hazm movement, and the SRF through them, had been receiving heavy weapons from the US-led coalition, including GRAD rockets and TOW anti-tank missiles.

But on Saturday night Harakat Hazm surrendered military bases and weapons supplies to Jabhat al-Nusra, when the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria stormed villages they controlled in northern Idlib province.

The development came a day after Jabhat al-Nusra dealt a final blow to the SRF, storming and capturing Deir Sinbal, home town of the group’s leader Jamal Marouf.

The attack caused the group, which had already lost its territory in Hama to al-Qaeda, to surrender.

“As a movement, the SRF is effectively finished,” said Aymen al-Tammimi, a Syria analyst. “Nusra has driven them out of their strongholds of Idlib and Hama.”

The collapse of the SRF and attacks on Harakat Hazm have dramatically weakened the presence of moderate rebel fighting groups in Syria, which, after almost four years of conflict is increasingly becoming a battle ground between the Syrian regime and jihadist organisations.

For the United States, the weapons they supplied falling into the hands of al-Qaeda is a realisation of a nightmare.

Stupid wars indeed…featuring the great Ken O’Keefe, who is the best guest to have on any talk show.

References:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-03/not-again-us-trained-syrian-moderates-surrender-jihadists-hand-over-heavy-weapons

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/11/02/us-backed-rebels-surrender-to-a-united-isis-nusra/