Archiv: Timber Sycamore (CIA program)


00:58 [ New York Times ]

U.S. Relies Heavily on Saudi Money to Support Syrian Rebels

(January 23, 2016)

In addition to Saudi Arabia’s vast oil reserves and role as the spiritual anchor of the Sunni Muslim world, the long intelligence relationship helps explain why the United States has been reluctant to openly criticize Saudi Arabia for its human rights abuses, its treatment of women and its support for the extreme strain of Islam, Wahhabism, that has inspired many of the very terrorist groups the United States is fighting. The Obama administration did not publicly condemn Saudi Arabia’s beheading this month of a dissident Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who had challenged the royal family.

00:46 [ Libertarian Institute ]

‘People in Our Government Supported Al-Qaeda’: Gabbard in Heated Exchange With Sen. Kelly

(January 30,2025)

“It was shocking and a betrayal to me and every person who was killed on 9/11, their families, and my brothers and sisters in uniform.” She continued, “When as a member of Congress, I learned about President Obama’s, dual programs that he had begun, really to overthrow the regime of Syria and being willing to, through the CIA’s Timber Sycamore program that has now been made public, of working with and arming and equipping Al Qaeda in an effort to overthrow that regime, starting yet another regime change war in the Middle East.”

10.02.2019 - 17:36 [ Fox News ]

I gave the US trucks and ammunition to Al Qaeda‘: The chaotic US effort to arm Syrian rebels

(15.5.2018) A second Obama administration program, „Timber Sycamore,“ was started by the CIA in late 2012 with the similar aim of arming rebels. This particular operation was active along the Turkish border to Syria‘s north, and a Jordanian crossing in the south, referred to as the “Southern Front.”

But Syrian opposition figures say this program was also compromised, with arms falling into the hands of ISIS or Al Nusra.

The program initially supplied light weapons. But as the Syrian civil war intensified, the U.S. strengthened its commitment by providing selected rebels with American “tune-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided” antitank missiles, better known as BGM-71 TOWs.

13.04.2016 - 14:49 [ Pepe Escobar / Facebook ]

Obama is going to Saudi Arabia next week for a GCC summit

My friend Gareth Porter tweeted about Richard Clarke – a notorious limited hangout practitioner – stating that the CIA concealed knowledge of al-Qaeda jihadis in US territory from the FBI because they wanted to recruit them through Saudi intel. For what? And to do what? The CIA operation to train Syrian „rebels“ is code-named Timber Sycamore. So training „moderate“ al-Qaeda would have been what – Sandalwood?

25.01.2016 - 19:42 [ RT Deutsch ]

Operation „Timber Sycamore“: Wie die USA islamistische Aufständische in Syrien unterstützen

Dass die USA islamistische Extremisten in Syrien unterstützen, ist seit Jahren ein offenes Geheimnis. Unklar war bisher, in welchem Rahmen diese Kooperation stattfindet. Am Wochenende veröffentlichte die New York Times nun den Codenamen der CIA für das Projekt. Unter dem Begriff „Timber Sycamore“ kooperieren die Geheimen des Außenministeriums seit Jahren mit den Nachrichtendiensten der Golf-Staaten, allen voran Saudi-Arabiens. Was wusste Barack Obama?