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Billy Love

(117 posts) Mon Sep 2, 2013, 10:48 AM Sep 2013

Let's examine the Syrian civil war a little bit...

Here are the Belligerents:

1) Syrian government

* Jaysh al-Sha'bi
* Shabiha
* Al-Abbas brigade
* National Defense Force

- Supported by Iran

Revolutionary Guards

2) Syrian opposition

* Free Syrian Army
* Syrian Islamic Liberation Front
* Al-Tawhid Brigade

3) Mujahideen

* Syrian Islamic Front
* Al-Nusra Front (KNOWN AL-QUAEDA AFFILIATE)
* Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (KNOWN AL-QUAEDA AFFILIATE)

4) Democratic Union Party (Kurdish)

5) Foreign Militants

* Hezbollah
* PFLP–GC

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All of them no good. The rebel leader was caught eating a heart of a dead soldier the other day. Why intervene when they can just destroy themselves in a civil war?

Especially those who are affiliated with Al-Q.

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