Inside a Covert U.S. Program to Arm & Train Moderate Syrian Rebels (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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- A 2014 FRONTLINE documentary followed Syrian rebel fighters who said they were being secretly armed and trained by the United States. (Aired 2014)
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Some three years after the beginning of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the regime’s bloody crackdown, journalist Muhammad Ali reported from Syria about a covert U.S. program to help moderate rebels fighting against both Assad and Islamist radicals aligned with Al Qaeda.
The reporter on “Syria: Arming the Rebels” was Muhammad Ali. The producer was Jamie Doran. The senior producer was Frank Koughan. The deputy executive producer of FRONTLINE was Raney Aronson-Rath. The executive producer of FRONTLINE was David Fanning.
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00:00 - Meeting Syrian Rebels
05:02 - Syrian Rebel Fighters Show Munitions They Said U.S. Provided
08:31 - Syrian Rebel Fighters Gave Accounts of Secret Training by U.S.
11:38 - A Debate Over the Obama Administration’s Syria Policies
18:11 - Credits
This is from 2014. People will watch this and think its from 2024.
What, you think we're not still pulling this kind of crap? Believe me, somewhere we are arming and training somebody we should absolutely NOT be helping.
@@Serai3Yes,like Israel.
Joey baby ain’t funding ISIS as they reemerge on the scene post Trump… trust me bro 😎 it’s magic 🪄 money 💰
@@manfromthepast we're still giving Syria weapons
It clearly says 2014 🤦🤦
I watched this a decade ago. Knew it was a terrible idea then. The USA and Saudi Arabia have blood on their hands for what they did in Syria.
Don't forget the little hat's
@@tombayless9759 those too.
lol
They aren't the only two.
@@twonumber22 turkey
It’s gonna be a sad day when the voice of this show retires there are not many left like him
Indeed 😔
By the time he retires, AI will do a better and faster Job. Nothing will be lost. In few years you can even select the AI narrator's voice and the language. 😂😂😂
lol "Moderate Rebels"
also known as ISIS. PBS is such a garbage network. Once you see it , you can't unsee it.
im a moderate mexican
Yeah the fsa was moderate,. They were people who had a problem turning their guns on ,. Unarmed Syrians,.
Cuz westerners are dumb they think the Fsa is isis or al nusra,.
They were moderate compared to others.
Yeah, like "kind of terrorists"
Assad , gaddafi and Saddam were secular leaders. This were not a conflict between Democracy and dictatorship , this is a conflict between secular dictatorship and religious radical dictatorship.
very few people realize.....epically the dumb politicians in the us and the idiots who vote for them
Wow!
They fighting for the zionis group Rebel
you forget western fund
@@EdukasiPerpus what you think China and Russia and (especially in the region) Iran don't do the same thing?
Imagine calling rebels aligned with ISIS "MODERATE". Is that not madness. 😂😂
America is the worst hypocrite on earth.
They were funded specifically fight ISIS and leave the regime alone
The fsa wasn’t aligned with isis,..
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They weren't "aligned with ISIS." Jesus. It's like you aren't even paying attention
@@ems4884was you under a rock all this time, seems like you don’t know what you talking bout
This government just doesn't learn.
no they know what they are doing, they just dont care.
They know what they do. Don't get it twisted
The deep state has its own agenda
This documentary is from 2014
No sorry you don't just get it how dirty your gov is . They don't look to learn they keep deviding and turning people against each other and that's what evil dose , but US. Gov has taken that assignment from devil.
Thanks for releasing a 10 year-old doc, 4 hours ago....
😂😂😂
Maybe they had a doctor's appointment, had to drop the kids off at school, pick up some groceries. Sometimes it takes 10 years.
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Thanks for letting us know your ability for finding a negative in anything and everything. I bet you’re great at parties too.
@@chrisdavenport3621 So I'm talking about a show, not attacking someone personally because I just got triggered and don't really have a point. But I bet you're that kind of guy, huh?
Peace and LOVE 🙏🕊❤🔥
Because it worked so well with the mujahidin.
yep, this is were ISIS got its start...
>moderate
Bro god dammit we’ve done this in at least 20 countries and it hasn’t worked once
It always works for Israel and arms manufacturers tho
Actually, it works to destroy the country and enable your companies loot its resources.
It always works out for CIA.
There is information that many may not know, which is that Israel does not only occupy Palestine, but also occupies an area in Syria called the Golan. The Golan is a Syrian Arab land located in the far southwest of Syria along its border with Palestine. This means that Israel is an enemy of Syria as well and of all Muslims. Palestine and Syria are one. Syria has a dangerous and criminal regime that resembles the rule of Hitler, the former president of Germany, so that the Syrians detained inside prisons are women, men, the elderly, or children. What is important is that they are Muslims. Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, and his allies are torturing them with the ugliest, horrific, and most horrific types of torture, the most famous of which is in Syria and has been used many times. . Such as: Impalement is a method of execution and torture, and it represents one of the most horrific methods of execution, as the victim’s body is pierced with a long, sharp stick on one side and taken out on the other. This is in addition to the fact that he did to them what Hitler did to the Jews when he burned them. As for Bashar’s father, who was the ruler of Syria before his son Bashar, he also burned in his prisons Muslim scholars who spoke the truth and revealed its secrets, and he threw chemicals on them. Now the war in Syria has been going on for about 12 years.
Please include the air date in the videos title! 🙏
they should mail you a postcard with the date, or you could just read the description
IN THE VIDEO FIRST Screen because people will think it is current...
@@ladedaloungeThe description: A 2014 FRONTLINE documentary followed Syrian rebel fighters who said they were being secretly armed and trained by the United States. (Aired 2014)
I listen to this stuff while I work. I realized only when I heard the Obama administration mentioned.
Indeed- some ppl are just listening to this and not looking at the screen or reading the description.
Obviously, we have learned nothing from doing the same in Afghanistan.
When Russia declared that they wouldn't be tolerating Western degeneracy, the sick perverts over at the US state department had the ideological casus belli for their new Cold War that they have been wanting for years.
We did. We learned the Afghan Army did not care with all the training the US gave them. They gave up and let the Taliban take over.
@@BeardofBeesPoolyou missed his point bud. he's talking about russia vs mujahideen
@@heybudstfunow Giving the "moderate rebels" weapons did not make them enemies of the US like the Mujahideen did. 2 totally different things.
@BeardofBeesPool not yet, but who can say what kind of leaders the survivors of these rebels will turn into in 20 years
Migs don't have Flir cam? 😂
not in 2014
@@5lanediver : Probably 😊
Tremendous report, the fact you released this in May 2014 is mind-blowing. Imagine it was overshadowed by ISIS' explosion a couple weeks later, but it was almost a full year before these men captured Idlib City thanks in large part to this "support", which led to the Russian / Iranian intervention that saved Assad.
Hilarious and tragic how open and prescient the Syrians were about everything. They knew exactly what the US' plans were (not wanting to give them too much so they won too fast) and knew how much of a joke the military support was. It's too bad the Syrian Revolutionary Front's attack on ISIS isn't covered, but imagine the footage might not have included this (or was shot before it).
Really wish I saw this when it came out.
To be a moderate rebel in the Middle East is definitely picking to be the odd one or to be the easy target.
This is such a fascinating look into foreign policy
I went to Syria in 2018 and joined the Kurdish YPG International Battalion and fought against isis in 2019 alongside US marines and special forces. When I came back the USA treated me like a terrorist.
oh please tell what happen?
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Illegal o ccupiers.
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No difference between Moderate vs. Radical
No difference between barrel bombs and hellfire missiles.
No difference between the Taliban and the Americans.
Remember, America is the one meddling in other people's countries. We only call them terrorists when they fight back.
there lierly by deffinition is a diffrence
Well this didn’t work out did it?
It caused huge devastation in Syria, so it worked out for the US/UK and Israel
@@alm4655Not really, Iran has essentially turned Syria into a proxy state. They have yet again secured another territory bordering lsraeI.
It did work out for the West. They used these guys to arm ISIS.
@@alm4655 you mean Assad caused devastation in Syria.
@@alm4655
And that was the precise aim, wasn’t it?
Merci pour ce reportage de qualité. Il reste quand encore des journalistes honnêtes. On se donne rendez-vous le Jour du Jugement.
It was a bad idea in 2014 and still is.
“He can’t see me I turned my light off” - guy actively recording in IR light
I said this on the last video. Please start putting the original air date in the title!
imagine John Lennon
Love how people comment on videos like this while knowing nothing about foreign policy.
People are really dumb in the comments they think the fsa is isis 😂😮😢
Yup. I never understand why people seem to have a real bad understanding of foreign policy and geopolitics. It's not a simple topic, but there's far more difficult subjects.
Yeah, like the illegal invasion of Iraq. Right?
How about the twenty year war in Afghanistan that we lost?
How about funding the genocide in Gaza?
We COMMENT on foreign policy because it is OBVIOUS we suck at it while spending trillions of dollars we don't have.
Or the repercussions of foreign intervention. Usually sounds good on paper in the moment, but never works out as intended.
You sound like you know a lot about foreign policy. Enlighten us, please.
They should have been supported more by not just us, but by the EU. Instead we have had to see so many die in Syria, so many die migrating and now support survivors as immigrants when they would rather be in their home country. Very sad.
Righttttt. Just like how we invaded Iraq, right?
GTFO with your ideological BS.
Also that’s how they got TOW missiles,They only got one missile at time and they had to take a video of what they are shooting at in order to receive another missle… it’s why you see so many videos of them
What could possibly go wrong?
PBS is the gold standard for news documentaries!
Facts
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This is not news.
It is history.
@@jakebredthauer5100 fake history. There are no "moderate rebels" they are just extremist terrorists.
@@jakebredthauer5100 Today isn't the original air date.
You mean pentagon propaganda
The funny part is that people on the ground think they can respond to a vehicle at 30,000 feet in time... You targeted you dead already
wtf is moderate rebels???? us rewriting english dictionary.... 😂😂😂
Yeah man, surely everyone in Syria was extremists, that is why they wanted democracy instead of dictatorship.... 😂😂😂
Vice trained me to always check the 'more' info option in the description. At least Frontline is still making these type of in-depth pieces.
This kind of thing never ends well
Radical *****
Good Reportings.
Thank You.
Didn't we learn anything from training the Taliban in the early 80's?
And dozens of other countries
Excellent journalism! The less we know sometimes, the better off we may be?
Thank you, Frontline!
What ,bout PEACE???
Ask the Defense Contractors what THEY think about peace. LOL
Not in Americans dictionary...
Unfortunately
Weapons 😂
Turning your lights off for a Jet is useless lmao
OH FFS, are we EVER. GOING. TO LEARN???
Before they trained and aed Talibans and became thier worst enemy...
When can ever learn from past mistakes
“Moderate” lol. Thanks Obama.
The devil is in the details. Moderate. 😂
Jesus Christ...the US never flippen learns. Smh
10 years ago
Frontline 👍
this definitely won't backfire....
William Lymman. The stunning voice. May God bless the Frontline PBS team.
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Why keep playing old videos? Why are you not producing new videos?
And once again looking back on that program, it failed miserably lol
Why do they keep fighting each other
Are you sure its "moderate" ?
Are these "moderate rebels" in the room with us rn?
I've never commented on a video before, but I had to for this one. It's that good!
Your comment is the best..............for me to poop on.
Also ten years old
Holy shit Mohammad Ali is in this?
And this will end in some awful way just like every time America has stepped in other countries politics.
I live in Omaha ne very close to offutt air force base (where the president went during the 9/11 attacks) I have not heard fighter jets in years doing practice flights, no sonic booms notably. Well in the past few weeks during the night they’ve been flying over my house around midnight and 3am. Offutt had become sortof irrelevant but not anymore the are doing practice flights getting ready for what I don’t know maybe it is just training I don’t know haven’t heard them in years
LOL is that the number one signature chant of muslims? ALLAHU AKBAR! me i hear starts runnin from ALLAHU AKBAR😂😂
They had a Chevy truck lmfao 🤣🤣
Heres a Secret. When you tell a news agency or reporter your secrets. Its not a secret anymore. ....
Basically moderate are those who serves the American interests and radical are those who are against American interests
This is from 2014....
how can you be moderate in an environment that is not moderate at all.
How can you be an American without meddling in other people's business half a world away?
This is 2014 btw. Not 2024
ISIS is also "moderate"? Just asking ...🙃
the Same exact people
2014 shown in small print briefly ONCE & ISN'T in the title > WTF type of 'journalism' is this?! 😑
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Them boys don’t know nothing about boxing like Ali does man, better not try to get in a fistfight with my guy it’d be a huge mistake
“Moderate”
A little bit irrelevant to be showing this 10 years later
😂 turn off the lights… what difference does it make???
"Moderate"
Why is Assad still in power ???????????
because Putin
because who the fuh are u to play police man of the world?
why supply a bunch of masked men that cant even to do task like provide gas masks should be your question…
Moderates .... are you joking
thank you Frontline
Get this narrator back ASAP.
Maybe Turkish supply??
Why USA is training Syrians rebels
Arming Moderate rebels with guns (terrorists) in other country to suite your foreign policy needs is illegal in the International court of law.
12:55 why not invest anti air missiles.. How much the cost of Innocent people died on these bombs
Thats how Isis / Isil was created
Your right. same people
Most of these weapons ended up in the hands of ISIL.
this is isis
@@gerrysperker Exactly this. "ISIL"
@@gerrysperkeruhm, nope.
@gerrysperker They are the same. It's like us calling America U.S or U.S.A.
ISIS = ISIL = Daesh
@@dantepr1566 These are "Free Suriya Army" rebels, Who turned out into "ISIL" To then Isis.. Maybe get a lil education on the matter.
A FSA era chamada de moderada, no entanto praticaram atrocidades parecidas às da ISIS.
USA está sempre a cometer os mesmos erros, outrora apoiou Giap aquando da guerra na Indochina francesa, e mais tarde os USA sentiram na pele o que os franceses já tinham sentido.
Apoiou igualmente por breves momentos os Kmers Vermelhos, aqueles que praticaram genocídio no Camboja.
USA criou a Al Qaeda, e agora isto.
Tolos.
They didn't create Al Qaeda. They supplied and trained people who later joined Al Qaeda. Not the same.
Its from 2014, write it in text. Disapointment😮
It. Is. Written. In. Text.
Check. The. Description.
"moderate"
Sooo...The Americans armed and training a rebel group to fight a Government?
nOw WhErE HaVe I SeEn ThAt BeFoRe... I WoNdEr
The same way they did with Binladen
why would the newly trained guys come by bus to pick him up then go back? Wouldn't it been wiser to just take him there? Clearly fake.
"moderate" LMFAO. right......
Recycled
"moderate" xD
What's new..... the problem is when America decides they have no more interest in your cause and leave you holding your nuts.....
Mujahadeen 2 electric boogaloo
2014
USA, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!
Start putting the original air date in the tittles
“Moderate Rebels”.
Propaganda.
Can you stop rerunning old documentary and produce something new.