Fuck Muhammad!!!

[BlueTiki]

The United States is only training 60 Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, falling short of the 5,400 fighters a year the Pentagon outlined as the core of non-regime, pro-western army.

The figure was given by Ashton Carter, the US defence secretary, as he addressed questions from the Senate’s armed forces committee on the Obama administration’s much-criticised policy on the Middle East.

"This number is much smaller than we had hoped for at this point," Mr Carter said.

In January, the Pentagon said $500 million agreed by Congress in October would be spent training 5,400 “moderate” rebels who would fight Isil. The aim was to find 3,000 in the first year, and in February the Pentagon was vetting the first of 6,000 rebel volunteers.

This took until June to whittle down to a shortlist of 1,500 - the aim was to remove any with a record of fighting for extremist groups.

So far, just 60 have actually begun training.

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Over 3.5 million refugees have flooded over Syria's borders to neighboring countries.

Dontcha think maybe . . . let's say . . . one percent of them . . . would be willing to take arms against both IS and Assad?

Is that really asking too much?