'Freedom fighters' on a wage: Pentagon requests $30mn salary budget for Syrian rebels: Ten thousand Syrian rebels are on the Pentagon's payroll, they want to increase that number to 65 thousand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NrgA0TD8Xk Ten thousand Syrian rebels are on the Pentagon’s payroll. That revelation coming from a US Defense Department budget request. Washington now hopes to increase that number to 65 thousand, despite the crushing failure of a previous train-and-equip programme.