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About the FSA: "The Free Syrian Army (Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر‎, al-Jaysh as-Sūrī al-Ḥurr, FSA) is a group of defected Syrian Armed Forces officers and soldiers,[15][16] founded during the Syrian Civil War on 29 July 2011[17] by five[16] or seven defected Syrian officers.[17][18] The group defined "all [Syrian] security forces attacking civilians" as their enemies,[17][18] and said its goal to be "to bring down the system"[17] or "to bring this regime down".[16] On 23 September 2011, the Free Syrian Army merged with the Free Officers Movement (Arabic: حركة الضباط الأحرار‎, Ḥarakat aḑ-Ḑubbāṭ al-Aḥrār); Western observers like The Wall Street Journal considered the FSA since then the main military defectors group.[19][20][21] 90% of the FSA consists of Sunni Muslims,[22] but a small minority are (Shia) Alawites[22] and some Druze fought in FSA units. About 15% of FSA units are Kurds.[23] some FSA units are led by Druze.[24] As for further ethnic minorities, a Palestinian rebel commander in the Yarmouk enclave in southern Damascus in 2012 considered his rebel brigade to be part of FSA.[25] The FSA coordinated with the Syrian National Council starting in December 2011,[26] and supported the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces after the coalition's November 2012 creation.[27] Between July 2012 and July 2013, ill-discipline and infighting weakened FSA, while jihadist groups entered northern Syria and became more effective than FSA.[28] In April 2013, the US promised $123 million aid to rebels, to be funneled through the then leader of the FSA, Salim Idriss.[29] Since February 2014, Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir is the appointed Chief of Staff and leader of the FSA.[2] A coalition of moderate Muslim rebel groups fighting under the Supreme Military Council of Syria, which includes the FSA, on 25 September 2014 allied with a predominantly Christian coalition called Syriac Military Council, to unite their fight against the Assad government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[8] At the outset of the civil war, the FSA operated throughout Syria, both in urban areas and in the countryside,[30] in the northwest (Idlib, Aleppo), the central region (Homs, Hama, Al-Rastan), the coast around Latakia, the south (Daraa and Houran), the east (Dayr al-Zawr, Abu Kamal), and the Damascus area, with their largest concentration of forces, nine battalions or more, in Homs, Hama and surrounding areas.[31][32] By November 2014, a growing coalition of 58 US-backed groups, the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army, was gaining territory south of Damascus in southern Syria.[33][34] In addition to its stronghold in the south, the FSA is active in pockets of Aleppo,[35] takes part in the ongoing offensives in Idlib,[36] and is aligned with the YPG in the defence of and ongoing combat near Kobanî.[37]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Syrian_Army If the FSA is secretly Al-Qaeda or ISIS, I'm not seeing it.

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About the FSA:

"The Free Syrian Army (Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر‎, al-Jaysh as-Sūrī al-Ḥurr, FSA) is a group of defected Syrian Armed Forces officers and soldiers,[15][16] founded during the Syrian Civil War on 29 July 2011[17] by five[16] or seven defected Syrian officers.[17][18] The group defined "all [Syrian] security forces attacking civilians" as their enemies,[17][18] and said its goal to be "to bring down the system"[17] or "to bring this regime down".[16]

On 23 September 2011, the Free Syrian Army merged with the Free Officers Movement (Arabic: حركة الضباط الأحرار‎, Ḥarakat aḑ-Ḑubbāṭ al-Aḥrār); Western observers like The Wall Street Journal considered the FSA since then the main military defectors group.[19][20][21] 90% of the FSA consists of Sunni Muslims,[22] but a small minority are (Shia) Alawites[22] and some Druze fought in FSA units. About 15% of FSA units are Kurds.[23] some FSA units are led by Druze.[24] As for further ethnic minorities, a Palestinian rebel commander in the Yarmouk enclave in southern Damascus in 2012 considered his rebel brigade to be part of FSA.[25]

The FSA coordinated with the Syrian National Council starting in December 2011,[26] and supported the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces after the coalition's November 2012 creation.[27] Between July 2012 and July 2013, ill-discipline and infighting weakened FSA, while jihadist groups entered northern Syria and became more effective than FSA.[28] In April 2013, the US promised $123 million aid to rebels, to be funneled through the then leader of the FSA, Salim Idriss.[29] Since February 2014, Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir is the appointed Chief of Staff and leader of the FSA.[2] A coalition of moderate Muslim rebel groups fighting under the Supreme Military Council of Syria, which includes the FSA, on 25 September 2014 allied with a predominantly Christian coalition called Syriac Military Council, to unite their fight against the Assad government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[8]

At the outset of the civil war, the FSA operated throughout Syria, both in urban areas and in the countryside,[30] in the northwest (Idlib, Aleppo), the central region (Homs, Hama, Al-Rastan), the coast around Latakia, the south (Daraa and Houran), the east (Dayr al-Zawr, Abu Kamal), and the Damascus area, with their largest concentration of forces, nine battalions or more, in Homs, Hama and surrounding areas.[31][32] By November 2014, a growing coalition of 58 US-backed groups, the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army, was gaining territory south of Damascus in southern Syria.[33][34] In addition to its stronghold in the south, the FSA is active in pockets of Aleppo,[35] takes part in the ongoing offensives in Idlib,[36] and is aligned with the YPG in the defence of and ongoing combat near Kobanî.[37]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Syrian_Army

If the FSA is secretly Al-Qaeda or ISIS, I'm not seeing it.

One of the Americans that went to fight for ISIS was killed by the FSA while he fought for ISIS. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/middleeast/american-fighting-for-isis-is-killed-in-syria.html?_r=0

Furthermore, plenty of articles show Assad would put the squeeze on the FSA bombing them and not ISIS.

There are about 5 different sides fighting over there, maybe quite a few more.

“ISIS and the New ‘Army of Conquest’ in Syria Are Headed for a Showdown”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/22/isis-and-the-new-army-of-conquest-in-syria-are-headed-for-a-showdown.html

We don’t need to agree with Pat Buchanan, some here might take issues with what he has written but he just wrote:

“While few would mourn the passing of the Assad dynasty, there is a problem: If Assad falls, a slaughter of Christians will follow and the battle for control of Damascus will be between the Syrian branch of al-Qaida, the Nusra Front, and the crazed terrorists of the Islamic State.”

http://buchanan.org/blog/our-next-mideast-war-syria-15984