Posted on 03/13/2016 9:59:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Al-Qaeda militants swept through a rebel-held town in northern Syria in a display of dominance Sunday, arresting U.S.-backed fighters and looting weapons stores belonging to the Free Syrian Army.
The militants belonging to the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front along with allied jihadists have been moving to exert their authority over rebel-held areas in Idlib province since a partial ceasefire to the country’s five-year conflict took effect two weeks ago, extinguishing patriotic demonstrations and sidelining nationalist militias. …
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I see the WH is re-arming its sharia type pals again.
That'll be upsetting to FINOs all over the world -- because they maintain the fiction that there's no difference. Thanks Olog-hai.
No excuse for not bombing the arms storage when this transpired.
As usual..
Quelle Surprise. /s
Surprise...surprise...surprise.
How does the White Mosque say, “mission accomplished”,
in arabic?
“Dirka Dirka Dirka Muhammad Jihad.”
Mr. niteowl77
As usual.
Top Syrian Rebel Group Merges With Al-Qaeda in Iraq
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/15065-top-syrian-rebel-group-merges-with-al-qaeda-in-iraq
“Moderate” Rebels Armed by Obama Join al-Qaeda, ISIS
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/19583-moderate-rebels-armed-by-obama-join-al-qaeda-isis
Another Rebel Division Trained by Obama Joins Al-Qaeda
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/21639-another-rebel-division-trained-by-obama-joins-al-qaeda
American-Backed Syrian Rebels Don’t Mind Al-Qaeda Cohorts
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/18034-american-backed-syrian-rebels-don-t-mind-al-qaeda-cohorts
There are no reliable anti-Assad “freedom fighters” in Syria, that the US may depend upon to unseat Bashir al-Assad.
For stability in the region, we would have been far better served to have supported Assad from the beginning. Much as he may have been a “good buddy” of Saddam Hussein, defeating Hussein probably put good enough scare into al-Assad, that he was ready to go straight, or at least as straight as a Middle East despot can be. Muammar Gaddafi, tyrant he may have been, at least had established stability in Libya, until the meddling of various parties, many of whom are deeply embedded in the Current Regime, chose to support “democracy” through the “Arab Spring”. The intention was to apply a similar tourniquet around the throat of Bashir al-Assad.
Only, al-Assad is NOT an “Arab”, he is Syrian, a different folk from Arabs, who exclude Syrians from their countries. Though descended from the same basic bloodlines, Syrians are held in contempt by Arabs, particularly the Sunni Arabs. Although 75% of the people of Syria are at least nominally Sunni, the ruling clique are all Alawites, and the doctrinal differences are enough to foment and feed a long-term dispute, going back to long before the modern era.
Not our fight and never was. But some very clumsy individuals within the Current Regime have chosen to insert themselves in this dispute, and now we have embroiled several other power players in the region, some from much further away than just immediately adjacent. By still demanding the ouster of al-Assad, we have put ourselves on a collision course with the Russian Federation. The fight just got a LOT bigger than it ever was before.
Have we become the de facto allies of Iran? We are certainly lined up AGAINST the Sunni Saudi Arabians.
Can’t tell the players apart without a score card.
This is a lie. The Moderates Rebel have joined forces with Al Qaeda and they pretend they were overwhelmed and lost the weapons for the media
This too is happening because of Trump’s speeches.
The only thing that would have stabilized the region was to have utterly destroyed the Iranian Mullah regime along with its Revolutionary Guard corps. Allying with Assad, who is their ally, would have meant more destabilization. More destabilization is going on right now with Iran’s rise; just ask Israel.
I seized my neighbors weedeater once.
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