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Tulsi Gabbard: US must Stop Arming Terrorists

Tulsi Gabbard: US must Stop Arming Terrorists
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US Representative Tulsi Gabbard called again for her country to stop aiding terrorists like al-Qaeda and Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group], while her guest at the presidential address to Congress, a Kurdish refugee activist, called for an end to the US policy of "regime change in Syria."

Tulsi Gabbard: US must Stop Arming Terrorists

While many Democrats invited immigrants as their guests for President Donald Trump's speech to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii, hosted Tima Kurdi, whose 3-year-old nephew drowned on the shores of Turkey in September 2015.

On Wednesday, Tima Kurdi joined Gabbard at a press conference on Capitol Hill and called on Trump "to end the regime change in Syria."

"The most important question is, how we address the cause of these people fleeing their homes," said Gabbard, pointing to the bill she submitted in this session of Congress. Her "Stop Arming Terrorists Act," or HR 608, would ban the use of US taxpayers' funds to aid terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda or Daesh.

"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 told RT.

Gabbard traveled to Syria in January on a fact-finding mission, meeting with President Bashar al-Assad. She also visited Aleppo, liberated in December from terrorists led by Jabhat Fatah Al-Sham, a re-branded al-Qaeda affiliate formerly known as Jabhat Al-Nusra.

The Pentagon's $500 million effort to train and equip "moderate" Syrian fighters that are operating against Damascus met with disaster in 2015, as the majority of the fighters either surrendered or defected to al-Nusra, with all of their US-funded weaponry. In the end, the program produced only "five or six" trainees, to the consternation of Congress.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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