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zimpenfish on Aug 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: An update on our commitment to fight terror conten...

> Trump decided to end the CIA program arming rebel groups in Syria after watching a video of one such group behead a young boy

Do you have a source for that? The only one I could find is The Weekly Standard which doesn't cite any officials or sources itself.

dilap on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

Yeah, that's my source too, by way of Twitter. I would assume they're not just completely making it up, but who knows?

zimpenfish on Aug 3, 2017 | [–]

Stories with no cited sources, anonymous or otherwise, are almost certainly making it up (or, to be charitable, conflating several disjunct events into a causal stream that doesn't exist.)

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