Posted on 06/18/2013 10:41:03 PM PDT by Perseverando
Obama weapons plan seen as adding to all-out sectarian conflict in Mideast
WASHINGTON Not only has the United States decided to begin providing weapons to the Syrian opposition, now Sunni Muslim clerics from the Gulf Cooperating Council countries, which are backed by the U.S. in arming and providing fighters to the opposition, have issued a fatwa calling for a holy war against Syria and its Shiite allies, principally Hezbollah, according to Joseph Farahs G2 Bulletin.
The fatwa, which signals the beginning of an all-out Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict, comes as foreign fighters led by the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra killed 60 Shiite civilians in Hatla, Syria. Many were women and children.
The homes of the 60 Shiites were burned down. The Sadeq al-Amin rebel brigade torched the Shiite homes because of the residents support for the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is a Shiite Alawite.
The foreign fighters are backed principally by Qatar and Saudi Arabia in their efforts to overthrow the Assad government.
In addition to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the Sunni GCC countries are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Syria is engaged in a civil war, but outsiders, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey all of whom are backed by the U.S. have been providing financial and logistical support and fighters from various brigades affiliated with al-Qaida, such as Jabhat al-Nusra. There are an estimated 50,000 such al-Qaida-affiliated foreign fighters.
Opposing them are Shia Iran, its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, as well as Russia and China. Now, the U.S. wants to send arms to the opposition based on an intelligence assessment that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against the opposition.
The assessment whose contents remain classified
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0bamaCAIR
Will WW3 be started by narcissistic homosexual who's only real job was working for Baskin and Robbins where he stole from his employer?
Was abandonment by his father the reason that he strives to please his sunni masters?
Or perhaps shame that all of his "accomplishments", Columbia, Harvard, Nobel Peace Prize, Presidency of the US were the result of affirmative action?
“U.S. strategy puts it in middle of ‘holy war’ “
This sounds like a wet dream for hussein. He gets to side with muzzies OR muzzies. Neither of them moderate.
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