Trump Watched a Video of �Moderate� Rebels Behead a Child Before Stopping CIA from Arming
Them
Apparently, Donald Trump watched a video that was suppressed by western media of 'Moderate
rebels' beheading a child, which led him to stop the CIA Syria program.
By Jay Syrmopoulos
Washington, D.C.
� New revelations have come to light that explain President Trump�s recent decision
to end the CIA�s covert weapons in Syria.
While regime change hawks were thrown into a frenzy over the recent decision, the real
story is what specifically impacted the president�s thinking and caused him to end the program
that supplied weapons to the so-called moderate rebels � many of which are actually known
terrorist groups.
In the August edition of The Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscely, Middle East expert for the
Foundation of Defense of Democracies, detailed the specifics surrounding Trump�s change
of heart regarding the covert CIA weapons program:
�Earlier this year, President Donald Trump was shown a disturbing video of Syrian rebels
beheading a child near the city of Aleppo.
It had caused a minor stir in the press as the fighters belonged to the Nour al-Din al-Zenki
Movement, a group that had been supported by the CIA as part of its rebel aid program��
�The footage is haunting.
Five bearded men smirk as they surround a boy in the back of a pickup truck.
One of them holds the boy�s head with a tight grip on his hair while another mockingly
slaps his face.
Then, one of them uses a knife to saw the child�s head off and holds it up in the
air like a trophy.
It is a scene reminiscent of the Islamic State�s snuff videos, except this wasn�t the work
of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi�s men.
The murderers were supposed to be the good guys: our allies.�
Trump is said to have pressed his senior intelligence official to explain how the CIA could be colluding
with groups that behead children and the video to the internet as recruitment propaganda.
It�s reported that none of the responses he received were deemed adequate.
�Trump wanted to know why the United States had backed Zenki if its members are extremists.
The issue was discussed at length with senior intelligence officials, and no good answers
were forthcoming, according to people familiar with the conversations.
After learning more worrisome details about the CIA�s ghost war in Syria�including
that U.S.-backed rebels had often fought alongside extremists, among them al Qaeda�s arm in
the country�the president decided to end the program altogether.�
While Trump�s decision to stop using taxpayer dollars to covertly funnel weapons to terrorist
groups that record themselves beheading children should be praised by the media, it is instead
lambasted as � wait for it � a pro-Russian move.
It is no secret that much of the opposition forces in Syria are aligned with ISIS or al-Qaeda.
In fact, the move by Trump was actually proposed in legislation by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
in the House and Senator Rand Paul in the Senate.
�For years, our government has been providing both direct and indirect support to these
armed militant groups, who are working directly with or under the command of terrorist groups
like Al-Qaeda and ISIS, all in their effort and fight to overthrow the Syrian government,�
Gabbard said earlier this year.
The child beheading video, by so-called moderate rebels, was only lightly covered in the mainstream
press and quickly faded from the headlines without ever being fully investigated or explained
to the public.
TFTP covered the video upon its release and specifically noted that the gruesome and shocking
murder was filmed and carried out by members of Nour al-Din al-Zinki � a group of �moderate
rebels� aided, funded, and armed by the United States.
As we previously reported, the Nour al-Din al-Zinki movement began in 2011 during the
Syrian civil war and grew to be a powerful anti-Assad group with the help of the US.
The group also reportedly fought against the Islamic State.
However, as the video shows, their crimes against humanity are no different than any
other terrorist group.
Amnesty International released a report detailing the horrid abuses of the Nour al-Din al-Zinki
Movement.
The group, who�s received everything from anti-tank missiles to cash from the US, stands
accused of unspeakable human rights abuses, including abductions and torture � and now,
publicly removing the heads of children.
The beheading video clearly illustrates the sick reality created by US foreign policy.
The brutal video showed five men posing with the frightened child in the back of a truck.
Later, one of the men is seen cutting off the boy�s head.
The incident is reported to have taken place in Handarat, north of Aleppo, where heavy
violence has been prominent recently.
The men in the video say the child is a fighter from Liwa al-Quds (the Jerusalem Brigade),
a Palestinian pro-government militia operating in the Aleppo area.
Liwa al-Quds is a pro-Syrian government Palestinian paramilitary faction made up of the Palestinians
who have been driven out of their homes in the Handarat Camp.
They are not part of ISIS and only fight to regain their homes.
However, according to the Liwa al-Quds, they said the boy, identified as Abdullah Issa,
was just an innocent 12-year-old from a poor refugee family who lived in a rebel-held area
of Aleppo.
Interestingly, the U.S. State Department seemed content to allow Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki,
the group responsible, to claim that it was rogue elements of the organization that carried
out the beheading and that they had arrested the men that committed the gruesome crime.
�If we can prove indeed what happened and this group [al-Zinki] was involved in it,
it would give us pause about any assistance or frankly any further involvement�, U.S.
official Mark Toner told reporters at a press conference.
�I can�t take what these consequences would be, but this certainly would give a
pause and we�ll look at any affiliation or cooperation with this group,� he reiterated.
This was a weak non-response, to a crime of extreme brutality upon a child, if ever one
was seen.
Revealing the extreme western collusion with Islamist elements in the Syrian regime change
operation, one of the major broadcasters in the U.K. � Channel 4 � went so far as
to attempt to obscure and hide previous online content, in which the beheaders were portrayed
as heroic �moderates,� after the release of the child beheading video.
According to a report by Zero Hedge:
The only press agencies that publicly and consistently challenged the State Department
at the time were RT News and the Associated Press, yet even these attempts didn�t get
picked up beyond the confines of the State Department�s daily briefing.
When the AP�s Matt Lee initially questioned spokesman Mark Toner as to whether Zenki would
continue to receive any level of US assistance, Toner casually replied �it would give us
pause� � which left Lee taken aback.
The criminality of the covert CIA weapons program (which Thomas Joscelyn emphasizes
that Trump has now come to understand the full scope of CIA cooperation with al-Qaeda
in Syria) leads to one distinct question: who in the Obama-era State Department and
CIA must be prosecuted first?
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