Weekend fighting in Aleppo Province left no doubt about the “declaration of war” by the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) against a faction of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which it blamed for assassinating one of its leaders.
But where does that leave the Syrian Civil War? The move seems to have pleased US officials, who weren’t comfortable with the FSA’s fighting alongside al-Qaeda, but without them, their effectiveness is questionable at best.
It’s not even the FSA cutting al-Qaeda loose, but getting into direct conflicts with them, and in some places, the fighting is going to be rebel vs. rebel with the Assad government eagerly waiting to pick up the pieces.
In the interim the FSA seems to be holding out hope to sideline al-Qaeda by calling on Sharia courts to rule on the assassination, and order the assassin handed over. That seems extremely unlikely, and is likely to just further the divide between secular and Islamist fighters.
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This war will continue until next election or when these barbarians have killed each other to point zero left of either side. This war is not a civil war, this war is the mercenaries war conducted and orchestrated by USA, EU, tyrants regime of Saudis and UAE, by Turkish sunny Muslim government, by the Muslims brotherhood of Egypt, the Wahhabis, the sallafis, by israelis and every other terrorism states sponsored or supported government there is.
There is another group of Al Quaeda connected fighters arriving to Syria – Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban, is sending hundreds of fighters to help their "brothers". http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/…
The so-called rebels are a bunch of terrorists- rather at least two bunches of terrorists, a convenient tool to further zioUS aims of wrecking Syria. It looks like they are going to lose, thanks to the staunch defence of Syria by the Syrian people -Sunni, Shia, Christian and Alawite, and with support from the Russians who can see clearly what is going on. Democracy in Syria? – nothing to do with it, this is all about zioUS hegemony in the Middle East.
With luck the two headed viper will poison itself until it is dead.