Just days after announcing that they were setting up a base to facilitate “cooperation” with Syrian rebels, Pakistan’s Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has announced that it has sent “hundreds of men” to fight in that nation’s civil war.
The fighters represent a major boost for Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist faction that the TTP fighters will reportedly fight alongside. The group, which has seen a falling out with secular rebels in recent days, will now enjoy an influx of combat-experienced Pakistani fighters.
What it means for the TTP is less clear, as the group’s sudden efforts to set up shop in another country may suggest that they are planning to be less aggressive inside Pakistan’s tribal areas in the near-term, while hoping the foreign jihad bolsters recruitment in the long run.
It also makes US plans to start arming Syria’s rebel fighters even more dicey, with yet another Islamist faction likely to acquire some of those weapons and likely to use them directly against US forces in the future.
At the same time the US government making peace deal with these people, there goes your democracy out of every windows and doors open to wherever.
Great news for NAZI AMERIKA—THEIR BODY BAG FACTORIES WILL BE IN FULL PRODUCTION..HOOAH!
These terrorists are a cancer of the human population. They keep multiplying and keep destroying everything they come into contact with.
I do not believe they will be less aggressive. They are trying to increase their size and by helping the Jabhat al-Nusra they establish themselves within that area to recurit further troops. The constant supply of arms on both sides has created a hostile environment for the innocent people within the area. There should be measures in place for the troops entering Syria to be sent back to where they came from or detained for further examination.
Isn't this at least reason enough for the US to support president Assad instead of the terrorists? Or are we now buddies with the Taliban. Hey, let's arm the Taliban in Syrian and then wonder why oh why those weapons are being used against US soldiers elsewhere.
We've been buddies with the mujahideen since long before they organized themselves as the "Taliban". Little falling out among thieves, I mean friends, there a few years back. Everything going back to normal now,
The fighting in Syria is still not dying out. This is to be sanctions against the country. The civil war has to stop. We need to learn from our history that civil wars have not solved anything.