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Al-Qaeda Infiltrating Syrian Opposition, With US Support
Russia slammed the US for 'justifying terrorism' in Syria
by John Glaser antiwar.com
Al-Qaeda militants and other Sunni extremists are becoming a greater and greater part of the conflict in Syria, just as the US officially announced it was abandoning any pretense of a diplomatic approach in favor of toppling the regime through proxy rebel groups.
(coincidence?)
“The evidence is mounting
that Syria has become a magnet for Sunni extremists, including those
operating under the banner of Al Qaeda,” reports the New
York Times. “The presence of jihadists in Syria has
accelerated in recent days in part because of a convergence with the
sectarian tensions across the country’s long border in Iraq.”
According to one US intelligence estimate, as many as a quarter of
the 300 rebel groups in Syria may be fighting under the banner of
al-Qaeda, says
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee.
Strangely, the fact that Washington, in cooperation with its allies, is
now sending communication gear, military intelligence, and weapons
to militias in Syria with considerable – and growing – ties to al-Qaeda
has not made the Obama administration blink.
Russia on Wednesday criticized
the US for not condemning the July 18 bombing in Damascus, which they
called an act of terrorism. ”This is directly justifying terrorism. How
can this be understood?” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
“In other words, to say it in
plain Russian, this means ‘we (the United States) will continue to
support such terrorist acts for as long as the UN Security Council has
not done what we want’,” Lavrov added.
The CIA is supposedly employing a “vetting process” to avoid having
the aid get into the hands of Islamic extremists, but the process is
made up of untrustworthy, third-party sources and intelligence officials
have recently told the Washington
Post and the Los
Angeles Times that the truth is that the US doesn’t
know who is getting the money and weapons.
(same as the ISI in the 1980's advising the CIA, as to who was a "good" Mujaheddin.....and not so trustworthy Mujaheddin)
Apparently, even arming and strengthening al-Qaeda isn’t enough to
disrupt Washington’s
plan to change the regime in Syria, in order to eliminate Iran’s
main ally in the Middle East and to gain an even stronger foothold in
the region.
(I am aware that it is popular for Zionist orientated and trained writers to couch all actions by Israeli figures embedded in the USA as SOMEHOW official USA policy........the USA never benefits from installing "al-CIA-duh" into power in any regime. Not in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, or Yemen. The only winners in such a situation are Likud Israel, and the warhawks of Washington tide to the weapons industry. The main promoters of such policy)
But extremist infiltration of the Syrian opposition carries other
problems. The Obama administration runs the risk of helping to bring
these extremists to power if and when the Assad regime finally does
collapse. Moreover, as happened in Afghanistan after the US proxy war
there with the mujihadeens, the potential for deadly
blowback is very real.
(So you again.....But a rather obvious one)
