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It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s — with one unsettling difference. In the background hang two flags of Al Qaeda, white Arabic writing on a black field.
The video, posted on YouTube, is one more bit of evidence that Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists are doing their best to hijack the Syrian revolution.
While leaders of the Syrian political and military opposition continue to deny any role for the extremists, Al Qaeda has helped to change the nature of the conflict, injecting the weapon it perfected in Iraq — suicide bombings — into the battle against President Bashar al-Assad with growing frequency.
Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists are doing their best to hijack the Syrian revolution
Also, this proves that the International community is supporting terrorism...
Now let's not be naive. The governments knew this anyway, so why the change? Perhaps they think there is to much truth on the internet to hide? Hmmm.
Originally posted by LightAssassin
reply to post by daaskapital
Only the ignorant cannot see what's going on. Unfortunately for us they are the majority, especially here in Australia.
I even have doubts that Assad is killing anyone and, in fact, he is merely trying to hunt Islamic militants AKA Al-CIA-da.
The reality is that intervention in Syria by the US and its allies has already begun. The western powers have backed the fractious opposition Syrian National Council since the early days of last year's uprising. So have the Gulf autocracies led by Saudi Arabia, who have stepped up the flow of weapons and cash to favoured Syrian rebel groups in recent months, while Turkey has provided a cross-border base. That is co-ordinated with the US, which supplies the same groups with "non-lethal assistance" and "communications equipment".
In other words, the US and its allies are sponsoring regime change through civil war. And while paying lip service to the Annan plan for demilitarisation and negotiation, they are making sure it won't succeed.
CIA absence from Syria a setback for U.S., officials say
The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks, in part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said. The Obama administration has said it is not providing arms to the rebels, but it has also acknowledged that Syria’s neighbors would do so.
Originally posted by Wonderer2012
The sickness of pretending to back a peace plan yet funded terrorists to destabilise the country to make way for regime change is beyond evil. It's truly awful.
edit on 25-7-2012 by Wonderer2012 because: (no reason given)