I think the Obama team is definitely helping the rebels, nothing to base it on or have verifable proof yet.
I seem to remember reading an article here at FR a couple months/few weeks ago detailing how Obama was “secretly” helping the revolutionaries in Syria with money and weapons. I believe it was an article by Reuters. I’ll see if I can’t track that down. Anyway, it’s more than a rumor that Obama is helping ALL of the MB “units” and affiliated jihad organizations, they never would have achieved this much if it weren’t for the assurances that the US would NOT step in on the “wrong side”.
OK, well it didn’t take me that long to find it after all! Here’s a link to the article I mentioned:
Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120802
I remember it because it struck me as so incredibly ironic that a supposedly “secret” order was printed in the international media so quickly, and so widespread... Definitely a leak - but, I think Obama WANTED his buddies to know he would come through.