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US backed Syrian rebel group dissolves, merges with Islamist after losses
ynetnews.com ^ | March 1, 2015 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/01/2015 1:16:30 PM PST by Leaning Right

Hazzm, one of largest remaining non-jihadist Syrian rebel groups, decides to merge with Islamists rebels with which they have fought for weeks.

One of the main western-backed rebel groups announced on Sunday that it had dissolved itself and joined a larger Islamist alliance, weeks into a battle which saw it lose ground and men to more powerful al Qaeda insurgents.

(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hazzm; islamist; muslimworld; ntsa; obamaradicalislam; syria; syriarebels; wouldntyou
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To: Lorianne

Israel itself has “mutual interests” with Muslims in the Middle East. A good recent example of that with Israel, is Egypt. Both Egypt and Israel had “mutual interests” to clamp down on Hamas, and they did work together,

Egypt and Israel also have “mutual interests” in keeping Islamic Terrorists out of the border region between Egypt and Israel.

AND ... there are “mutual interests” with other Arab nations for Israel to attack Iran and their nuclear facilities.

That’s how “mutual interests” work ... :-) ...


61 posted on 03/01/2015 4:41:16 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

That’s great for Israel!
But we don’t live next door to millions of Muslims ... not yet anyway.


62 posted on 03/01/2015 4:43:46 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: dfwgator

Exactly.


63 posted on 03/01/2015 4:44:20 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Star Traveler

Why is this OUR problem. It seems to me that ISIS is a bigger threat to other Muslims. Maybe if they got off their asses and did something about it ...?

Oh wait ... they don’t have to do a damn thing because the USA will spend all the money in the universe and send our young people over there to die for them ... big heaping piles of USA bodies ... to save Muslims from other Muslims.

Lovely.


64 posted on 03/01/2015 4:47:11 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Lorianne

That’s because ISIS has more capability of directly attacking the USA than al Qaeda ever did have ... and we already know what al Qadea accomplished.


65 posted on 03/01/2015 4:50:23 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: corlorde

“This is nothing, you should have seen what was going on in the Crusades... Christians!, Christians!, Christians! /sarc”

So perhaps them joining those they had been fighting against will be like Prots and Catholics joining together to defeat our common enemy - militant islam. Some day. I hope.


66 posted on 03/01/2015 4:54:20 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Lorianne

That was an clear example of “how” mutual interests work ... and it’s the same for all nations.


67 posted on 03/01/2015 4:54:24 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: dfwgator

You get involved where they are gong to affect our own national interests. Saddam Hussein’s interest there was to control an overwhelming amount of the world’s oil so that he could blackmail the West (that would be the USA).

It was in the national interests and security interests of the USA to kick Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. However, he should have been left in better control over his own country to prevent the situation that has developed today.

That would ALSO be in our national interest.


68 posted on 03/01/2015 4:58:46 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

The Saudis have blackmailed the West for years, but they do it with a smile.


69 posted on 03/01/2015 5:00:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Saddam Hussein’s is in an entirely different category ... :-) ...

You whack him over the head, let him control Iraq, and then he’s a friend of the USA again, and will also help the USA against Iran

We just removed the one power in that region who could really be an offset to Iran. Look at where that has gotten us now with Iran. AND ... look at where that’s gotten us with ISIS in Iraq!


70 posted on 03/01/2015 5:05:04 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
Saddam Hussein’s interest there was to control an overwhelming amount of the world’s oil so that he could blackmail the West (that would be the USA).

That's conjecture. We know the Kuwaitis and the Saudi agents went full stop with the propaganda to get us into that war.

Now granted, if you go to war with someone, you damn well don't keep them in power, or else you can bet they will make trouble again. And sure enough, we had to go back in 10 years later.

71 posted on 03/01/2015 5:09:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I would have not only left in power, I would not have the no fly zones, and I would let him crush the Shias! Then I would be HELPING HIM attack Iran!

It’s too bad we didn’t do that!


72 posted on 03/01/2015 5:24:26 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

The best thing was to do what Reagan did, let them bleed each other dry.


73 posted on 03/01/2015 5:25:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Star Traveler

That may or may not be so.
Either way, we need to up our defense AT HOME and restrict immigration from certain parts of the world. We also keep a strong navy in the region. But there is no way in hell we should be giving arms or money or training (not to mention g-d “nation building” and “democracy”).

There is a lot we can do to counter terrorism on our own soil without going over there and giving Muslims billions of dollars and arms and training and everything else they ask for.


74 posted on 03/01/2015 5:36:38 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Lorianne

Ummm ... I haven’t heard anyone say anything about nation-building for ISIS ... LOL ...


75 posted on 03/01/2015 5:59:24 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: ZOOKER

Yeah, that would be funny if it weren’t true.


76 posted on 03/01/2015 6:19:54 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: Star Traveler

Oh, you didn’t hear about the jobs for terrorists program?


77 posted on 03/01/2015 6:48:16 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Lorianne

I heard about some “talk” in regards to deprived people ... BUT ... I didn’t hear about anyone offering to set up a “jobs program” for ISIS ... LOL ...


78 posted on 03/01/2015 6:52:27 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Leaning Right

and these are the Moderates that OBama is arming. CONGRATULATIONS.


79 posted on 03/02/2015 2:37:22 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: Star Traveler

Obama is the biggest friend of Islamist in Egypt, Libya and Syria. ISIS wouldn’t have existed if he didn’t destroy governments in Syria and Libya and backing Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt


80 posted on 03/02/2015 2:41:20 PM PST by 4rcane
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