The first full year of the Syrian civil war has come and gone, and if 2012 began as the year of the Free Syrian Army, with its collection of military defectors, 2013 looks to be the year of the al-Nusra Front, a terrorist-styled organization with a formal endorsement from al-Qaeda.
For the past several months, the al-Nusra Front, initially a small but aggressive faction interested primarily in attacking Syrian media outlets, has grown into one of the biggest and most fearsome front-line fighting forces, with an estimated 5,000 fighters today.
This has complicated US interests in propping up the rebels with an eye toward eventually installing them as the new government, as they have already labeled al-Nusra a foreign terrorist organization, and claim that the group’s leadership is virtually indistinguishable from al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
Which appears accurate, but with the group taking an ever stronger lead in the civil war, the US will quickly find itself simultaneously labeling the group an “al-Qaeda affiliate” while arguing that the rebels they are such a huge part of deserve to be the new regime in Syria.
This is by design.
Why only success stories of new 5000 killers? Should this act as encouragement and motivation for the useless Arabs in NATO countries to get recruited? Is antiwar a promotion office for killers for the war on Syrian people?
The Syrian Army has 1 million soldiers or two million when one counts the reservists too. Even when USA &Saudis recruit 5000 on a daily base it will only hurt the civilians and create refugees.
Why never reporting from the daily Syrian Center for Documentation Newsletter in original version from the real war zone?
See: http://www.documents.sy/newsletter.php?action=dow…
The government troops have really problems what to do with the many death daily bodies of these US paid terror groups.
I guess I understand – such news is not wanted since not useful to get more gun lovers recruited for Syria. Am I right Mr. Ditz?
>>2012 began as the year of…<<
BS. I do not believe that ignorance can be this persistent, absent a deliberate and determined effort.
This should get an award for the shortest, and most accurate analysis of US foreign policy.
Blah, blah, blah.
All information on the various fanatical groups was available from the beginning. Now, we are are discovering that they exist, and how these groups — were small at first, more blah, blah and blah.
The groups were "small" because these fanatics came from outside Syria, and just like "Free" Syrian army, they are collected from various parts of the world. And how many groups are there? Aren't ALL of them religious? Just this group according to UN estimates conducted over 600 attacks, the vast number of them against civilians via car bombs. For example, how did mercenaries from Kosovo come to Syria? "Free" Syrian army came to Kosovo to learn from terror experts, "former:" KLA, and now Kosovo officials. Does anyone believe that such meetings could take place without US knowing? And as a result, figthers from Kosovo are in Syria. The only proof is the arrival of dead bodies to Kosovo.
How long will we continue to support terrrorists against the people? Who knows, as more blah, blah, blah continues from all sources.
No one could have anticipated that al-Qaeda would …. Hell you know the rest we've heard it many times before.
It's a very odd type of civil war that needs terrorist training camps on foreign soil [i.e. Turkey] to train foreign fighters and arm them before they enter Syria. Since foreign fighters make up the real anti Assad fighting forces, why do they call this a Syrian Civil War? Is it not a proxy war with NATO recruiting, training, arming, paying and transporting terrorists from many foreign countries to fight against the government of Syria. How is this Civil?
USA seeks to put a puppet government loyal to Al-Qaeda and their sponsors the US CIA into power in Syria. NATO will support the new loyal Al-Qaeda as they kill untold thousands of minority religious groups and non Sunni Syrians. NATO's fighters have already begun to kill Christians.