The Long War Journal reported on June 29 that the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, which is "al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria," has "cooperated with Free Syrian Army units to establish sharia, or Islamic law, in Aleppo and in eastern Syria." What is the Free Syrian Army? The "moderates" whom we are training and to whom we are giving weaponsThat's straight BS, but it's a frequent drumbeat around here. The FSA began as secular resistance among Syrian army defectors, fundie groups started to fight the regime, sometimes alongside the FSA, sometimes purportedly under their umbrella, but that variance in goals of the various fundie groups and the FSA led to a split over a year ago, culminating in the 2013 assassinations and attempted assassinations of FSA leaders by the various al-Qaeda affiliates.
Doesn’t matter. If AQ is in your organization, you are no more. AQ rules.
The Afghan army, for example, is by now basically an AQ franchise.