Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) doesn’t really need an excuse to attack Kurdish villages, and has hit them off and on in recent months in the Aleppo Province, mostly revenge for having been ousted from the nation’s northeast by Kurdish militias.
But the Aleppo Kurds say that with the outbreak of a “war within a war” between AQI And other rebel factions, territory grabs are becoming even more common and that’s making them a target.
Some Kurdish dominated villages have sought support from the anti-AQI rebel factions, but many warn that those offers of support come at a cost, and are giving AQI an excuse to hit those villages first.
The rebel infighting started in the northwest, with factions taking AQI’s less secure possessions in Idlib and Latakia, but now spans most of the rebel-held north, with Aleppo the site of some of the bloodiest clashes.
The responsibility fighting these barbarians is on everyone shoulders, Kurds, Christians, Jewish, Muslims and every human being in this world, simply because these people are nothing but barbarians.
(Aleppo Kurds Fear al-Qaeda Will Take Their Towns)
These are not Kurds' towns, rather they are SYRIAN TOWNS. Are they enganged in sectarian war against Assad? The Kurds are Syrians and should stop acting as pawns of Israel/US against the interest of Syrian people and the region. Due to their cooperation with the war criminals, the Kurds cannot be trusted. Stop using the sectarian card to help your MASTERS, the zionists and imperalists. People of the region hate this kind of tribal interest.
The Kurds have existed as a "tribal interest" since at least the 4th century CE.
The existing Syrian state goes back only about 50 years; the Westphalian nation-state as such only about 400.
For what reason should a longstanding ethnic association be presumptively trumped by the recent upstart claims of a regime based on another ethnic association (pan-Arabism)?
Maybe if AntiWar and other groups had cared about an actual distinct nation like the 25 million Kurds who have no international support, rather than supporting the Arab terrorist groups that besiege Israel with their lies, propaganda, and violence, this would not be an issue. An independent Kurdistan would be a very stable and moderating force, unlike the tribalistic and non-nation Arabs located around Israel.