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The [[Edward Snowden|Snowden leaks]] detail a program that trained approximately 10,000 jihadi fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year.<ref>http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/</ref>

The [[Edward Snowden|Snowden leaks]] detail a program that trained approximately 10,000 jihadi fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year.<ref>http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/</ref>

===Stingers, SAM-7s, and MANPADs===

===Stingers, SAM-7s, and [[MANPADS]]===

On March 7, 2011 Ben Knight, reporting from the jihadi rebel side, told an [[Australia]]n radio audience about the jihadi rebel equipment: "we saw some stinger missiles today."<ref>http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3156632.htm</ref> Four days later the [[Canadian]] ''Globe and Mail'' interviewed the rebel appointed as security chief in Derna: {{Quotebox|“We need Stingers. We don’t need your stupid words.” The article noted "foreign intelligence agencies have bitter experience with supplying Stinger missiles to anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan, only to spend years struggling to keep them out of the hands of terrorists."<ref>https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/libyan-rebels-at-pains-to-distance-themselves-from-extremists/article570971/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&</ref>}}

On March 7, 2011 Ben Knight, reporting from the jihadi rebel side, told an [[Australia]]n radio audience about the jihadi rebel equipment: "we saw some stinger missiles today."<ref>http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3156632.htm</ref> Four days later the [[Canadian]] ''Globe and Mail'' interviewed the rebel appointed as security chief in Derna: {{Quotebox|“We need Stingers. We don’t need your stupid words.” The article noted "foreign intelligence agencies have bitter experience with supplying Stinger missiles to anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan, only to spend years struggling to keep them out of the hands of terrorists."<ref>https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/libyan-rebels-at-pains-to-distance-themselves-from-extremists/article570971/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&</ref>}}

In all likelihood [[TWA Flight 800]] was brought down by a Stinger missile off [[Long Island]] in 1996, killing 230 people, which had been supplied to the Afghan ''mujihadeen'' in the 1980s by the CIA, and then smuggled back into the United States during the [[Clinton administration]].<ref>https://www.amazon.com/TWA-800-Crash-Cover-Up-Conspiracy/dp/1621574717</ref>

In all likelihood [[TWA Flight 800]] was brought down by a Stinger missile off [[Long Island]] in 1996, killing 230 people, which had been supplied to the Afghan ''mujihadeen'' in the 1980s by the CIA, and then smuggled back into the United States during the [[Clinton administration]].<ref>https://www.amazon.com/TWA-800-Crash-Cover-Up-Conspiracy/dp/1621574717</ref>