The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a major series of airstrikes against a building belonging to al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front in the northern Syrian Idlib Province, reporting at least 30 fighters were within at the time of the attack. The observatory said they were uncertain who carried out the attack.
Nusra is a popular target, both for the Syrian military and Russia. Nusra officials, however, accused the US-led coalition of carrying out today’s strike, describing the building as their “headquarters” in that part of the province.
It would be unusual for the US to target Nusra, despite the group being directly linked with al-Qaeda. The US has been presenting Nusra as “moderates” for months, mostly opposing the idea of Nusra being chased out of Aleppo by the Syrian military.
Nuisra and the other rebels do seriously resent the US, however, presenting their loss of Aleppo as a “betrayal” by the US, who they apparently were counting on to keep the Syrian military from overrunning their half of the city. This may have them keen to blame the US, whether or not they ultimately were involved in this latest strike.
If AlQatda and Al Nusra are run out of east Aleppo it is correct to blame the USA . because we did not help our terrorists enough . We helped them enough to take over Libya , We helped the brotherhood enough to take over Egypt , but we failed to help them enough to keep Egypt .. I can’t Imagine any U.S. policy that could have been much worse than our Mideast policy has been for more than the last thirty five years for all Mideast countries with the possible exception of maybe Israel .
Good question. I am wondering now if we actually helped Israel, or just created conditions for the most irrational leadership to emerge and as a result lead the country into choices that are fundamentally opposed to their security and economic development in the long run.
Ever since 9/11/01 our Government has supposedly been relentlessly hunting down and killing Al Qaeda terrorists wherever they may be found. Now it appears that our Government may have accidentally killed some Al Qaeda terrorists who were not smart enough to identify themselves as “freedom fighters” or “good guys” or “regime changers.” Presumably the Pentagon will make appropriate apologies to the “moderate rebels” who are mourning the deaths of these fine folk. And so it goes.
A proof of Syrian Observatory lies. The building was Al-Nusra jail, two B-52 carried out
the attack. In the jail were members of FSA that Al-Nusra arrested. The “arrests” were in response to FSA units either leaving Idlib to join Turkey led operation, or were crossing into Turkey for the same purpose. The circumstances of arrest are not clear, but were reported much earlier. Turkey’s allies are now targeted as Turkey signed the deal with Russia that follows UN guideline, keeping Al-Nusra out of cease fire.
The town in question is on Turkish border. The incident was reported immediately on Al-Masdar, and locals confirmed that it was the jail, as well as how many inmated died and how many injured.
I guess Al-Nusra did not want to kill them — and make enemies among remaining FSA in Idlib. This way, it is clearly written off as US targeting them. Nobody is this stupid.
US never attacked Al-Nusra — why bother to do it now. And jail of all things. This is a message to Turkey. Change in Administration cannot come soon enough.
Dec 27, 2016 The Real Syria Story No One Wants You to Know About
On this episode of The Geopolitical Report, we counter the establishment’s narrative on the conflict in Syria and the flashpoint of Daraa, a town near the Syria-Jordan border where the CIA, working with the Muslim Brotherhood, attacked police and set the stage for a conflict that has so far claimed the lives of more than 400,000 Syrians. The proxy war is designed to take down a secular government and replace it with a Salafist principality controlled by the Brotherhood, a longtime CIA and British intelligence asset.
https://youtu.be/zGEc-CMsrQs