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Qaeda-Linked Insurgents Clash With Other Rebels in Syria

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“Deadly clashes were reported Friday in northern Syria between Sunni Islamist jihadists linked to Al Qaeda and insurgents in other alliances.  The rebels call themselves the Mujahedeen Army, and they resent what they see as the affiliate’s hijacking of their struggle, now nearly three years old, to depose President Bashar al-Assad.  The Mujahedeen Army also issued a statement in Arabic on Facebook essentially announcing that it now considered the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria an enemy.  Another alliance of rebels, called the Islamic Front, issued a statement denouncing what it called a series of crimes committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/world/middleeast/qaeda-insurgents-in-syria.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140104&_r=0

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Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq

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“A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago.  In Fallujah, where Marines fought the bloodiest battle of the Iraq war in 2004, the militants appeared to have the upper hand. The upheaval also affirmed the soaring capabilities of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the rebranded version of the al-Qaeda in Iraq organization that was formed a decade ago to confront U.S. troops and expanded into Syria last year while escalating its activities in Iraq.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/al-qaeda-force-captures-fallujah-amid-rise-in-violence-in-iraq/2014/01/03/8abaeb2a-74aa-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_print.html

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Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown: NIE

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“The National Intelligence Estimate, which includes input from the country’s 16 intelligence agencies, predicts that the Taliban and other power brokers will become increasingly influential as the United States winds down its longest war in history.  The report predicts that Afghanistan would likely descend into chaos quickly if Washington and Kabul don’t sign a security pact that would keep an international military contingent there beyond 2014 — a precondition for the delivery of billions of dollars in aid that the United States and its allies have pledged to spend in Afghanistan over the coming years.  That conclusion is widely shared among U.S. officials working on Afghanistan.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/afghanistan-gains-will-be-lost-quickly-after-drawdown-us-intelligence-estimate-warns/2013/12/28/ac609f90-6f32-11e3-aecc-85cb037b7236_story.html

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Syria rebels fracturing as the Free Syrian Army condemns jihadists

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“On Friday, after ISIS seized the northern border town of Azaz, the opposition National Coalition for the first time publicly condemned attacks by jihadists. ‘The Coalition condemns the aggressions against the forces of the Syrian revolution and the repeated disregard for the lives of Syrians, and considers that this behaviour runs contrary to the Syrian revolution and the principles it is striving to achieve,’ it said, after ISIS seized Azaz on the border with Turkey from FSA hands. Problems between the FSA and ISIS are not only over control, but also about vision.  While the FSA is fighting to establish a democratic state in Syria, the aim of ISIS is to create and rule over an Islamic state.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/20/syria-rebels-fracturing-as-the-free-syrian-army-condemns-jihadists/

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Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West

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“As the United States debates whether to support the Obama administration’s proposal that Syrian forces should be attacked for using chemical weapons against civilians, this video, shot in the spring of 2012, joins a growing body of evidence of an increasingly criminal environment populated by gangs of highwaymen, kidnappers and killers.  Across much of Syria, where rebels with Western support live and fight, areas outside of government influence have evolved into a complex guerrilla and criminal landscape.  That has raised the prospect that American military action could inadvertently strengthen Islamic extremists and criminals.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/world/middleeast/brutality-of-syrian-rebels-pose-dilemma-in-west.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130905&_r=1&&pagewanted=all

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Obama’s Syrian Allies Bombard Christian Village

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“Obama’s allies in Syria — those who will directly benefit from the coming US airstrikes — stepped up their genocide against Syrian Christians today, attacking Maaloula, a Christian village, indiscriminately using mortar shells fired from a hilltop above the village.
According to the press report:  ‘Maaloula, a mountain village some 40 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Damascus, is home to about 2,000 residents, some of whom still speak a version of Aramaic, the ancient language of biblical times believed to have been spoken by Jesus.’  Will American Christians support a war for the genocide of Christians in Syria?”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/obamas-syrian-allies-bombard-christian-village/

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Syria: Nobel Peace Laureate Tells Her Account of What She Witnessed

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Syria: Nobel Peace Laureate Tells Her Account of What She Witnessed

“Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mairead Maguire tells her account of her visit to Syria. While Maguire was in Syria she discovered that the people the U.S. are funding are violent groups and do not want peace in Syria. Her her view is that Syria is being used as a proxy war by the U.S., Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.”

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Ted Cruz: Obama shouldn’t use U.S. military as ‘Al-Qaeda’s air force’

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“‘But there’s a broader problem. This administration, when it conducts foreign policy, it doesn’t do so based on U.S. national security interests… It appears what the president is pressing for is essentially protecting his public relations because he drew a red line, and essentially the bluff was called. We’re not going to resolve the tensions over there and the last thing we ought to be doing is sending our sons and daughters into harm’s way to get into the middle of this sectarian civil war,’ he added. ‘We should be focused on defending the United States of America. That’s why young men and women sign up to join the military, not to — as you know — you know, serve as Al-Qaeda’s air force.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/04/ted-cruz-obama-shouldnt-use-u-s-military-as-al-qaedas-air-force/

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Syria’s Game of Thrones: Obama backs Al Qaida and the Chechen terrorists

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“It’s worth noting that, as America backs the Saudis, and they back Al Qaida and the Chechen terrorists, through its relationship with the House of Saud, America is actually helping to fund terrorism against both Russia and itself.  The moral implications are far greater than any inaction in Syria.  Involvement in Syria will support Saudi Arabia more than it does anyone else in the region, or indeed the world.  The Russians have every right to be skeptical of the Saudis, just as the US has every right to be skeptical of Iran.”

http://benswann.com/syrias-game-of-thrones-obama-backs-al-qaida-and-the-chechen-terrorists/

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CIA Analyst Michael Scheuer Exposes Syrian War Lobbyists

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CIA Analyst Michael Scheuer Exposes Syrian War Lobbyists

“Members of al Qaeda are known to be among the rebels being supported by the Obama administration. Like a Mexican standoff, the tragic conflict could go in any direction.  Michael Scheuer is a historian and former CIA analyst. For three years, he headed the Osama bin Laden tracking Unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. He is author of the book Imperial Hubris. In 2007, bin Laden said Scheuer’s book revealed the reasons behind U.S. losses in the War on Terrorism.”

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