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White House Admits US Troops in Syria Will Go on Combat Raids

annata said:
When the Pentagon announced plans to send a team of commandos to Syria, no one seemed to stop and ask the most basic question – how are they going to get into an active war zone in the first place? Official documents show that the U.S. Air Force likely set the stage for this secretive mission years ago.

One of the Air Force Special Operations Command’s main missions is to sneak America’s elite troops in and out of hostile countries with its fleet of specialized aircraft. But the flying branch’s top commando headquarters also relies on specially trained airmen to first find places to drop troops and equipment.

In 2013, so-called Assault Zone Reconnaissance Teams — a.k.a. AZRTs — scouted out nearly 300 landing zones, drop zones and other sites “throughout the Middle East,” according to an official Air Force history War Is Boring obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

In addition to finding suitable landing sites, the highly-trained AZRTs help coordinate missions from the ground and call in air strikes, rescue downed airmen or wounded commandos … and even watch the weather.

“There’s a lot of work going on at SOC FWD locations — SOC FWD Yemen, Lebanon, Oman, all the GCC — the Gulf Cooperation Council,” a member of the 720th Special Tactics Group wrote in a February 2014 email reproduced in the historical review. Censors redacted the individual’s name.

American Commandos Are Ready to Sneak All Over the Middle East | War Is Boring
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Thats very interesting, but not at all surprising, to me.
 
Risky Thicket said:
. Actually the U.S. has likely covertly created one faction even before the conflict began.
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How do you figure? The FSA was formed by defecting army conscripts as a responce to violent supression of peaceful political protests.
 
Red_Dave said:
How do you figure? The FSA was formed by defecting army conscripts as a responce to violent supression of peaceful political protests.
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I said it is likely. It's what the U.S. government has done many times in the past prior to and during its destabilization of foreign governments.
 
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