Pentagon Claims It Didn’t Supplied Terrorist Groups in Syria with Shoulder-Fired Air Defense Systems

WASHINGTON, (ST)- The Pentagon on Friday claimed that it hasn’t supplied shoulder-fired air defense systems (Manpad) to armed terrorist groups, which call themselves “Syrian opposition”, after the former US President Barack Obama lifted a ban on supplying such kind of weapons, a SANA report said.

On December 8, 2016, Obama announced lifting ban on supplying arms, ammunitions and military equipments to “allies of the United States in Syria” allegedly to fight terrorism.

 According to the report, the US Department of Defense spokesperson Adrian Rankine-Galloway told the Russian Novosti News Agency that “the Pentagon didn’t send US shoulder-fired air defense systems to any groups in Syria.”

He claimed that  the United States is providing weapons only to the so-called “Syrian-Arab Coalition”, which is affiliated to “Democratic Syria Forces”.

Since the very beginning of the terrorist war on Syria, the United States has supported terrorist organizations, including internationally-blacklisted  terror groups like ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, and provided them with money and tonnes of various kinds of weapons.

Over the past years, the United States announced a training program for terrorists in Syria in cooperation with the Turkish regime and Gulf states, but it has failed given its disability to find what it insists to call “moderate opposition”.

Hamda Mustafa