Islamic Jihadists Are Now The Most Organized Force Of The Syrian Opposition
The American State Dept. and CIA never learn.
The word to learn here is Blowback, and for some reason no American in the State Dept or CIA likes hearing this word mentioned or learning what this word means.
You would think after Afghanistan, we would stop using the Saudis to organize rebellions but then again, Americans don’t like learning from history, that’s for Europeans.
Islamic Jihadists Are Now The Most Organized Force Of The Syrian Opposition
Michael Kelley | Oct. 11, 2012, 3:34 PM
Powerful Syrian Islamist brigades, frustrated by the increasingly fractured Free Syrian Army (FSA), are joining forces in an attempt to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reports.
A citizen Deir Ezzor, a city in eastern Syria, told The Guardian that Islamist organizations “are the real fighters on the ground” while the FSA there “are only issuing statements” and “stockpiling weapons in the countryside for reasons we don’t understand.”
The man added that there is little coordination among FSA groups because there is “big conflict between the defected officers about who should be the commanders.” Consequently, people are now “more supportive of the jihadi organizations than the FSA.”
The jihadists brigades have decided to come together to form the “Front to Liberate Syria” and one jihadist leader told Reuters they have “more than 40,000 fighters now and the numbers are growing.”
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