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dipsydoodle

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3. the opposition has "increasingly become more defined by its moderation ?
Wed Sep 4, 2013, 05:10 PM
Sep 2013

The al-Qaeda linked “Jabhat al-Nusra” (al-Nusra Front) in Syria, has been held responsible for having instigated a sectarian racist war against civilian Kurds in Syria’s northern Kurdish region, the outcomes of which recently led to the massacre of hundreds of Kurdish women and children, “some of whom were raped and beheaded by jihadists”, says Syrian opposition officials, witnesses and victims.

Human rights activists in Syria’s Kurdish region have confirmed that 450 Kurdish civilians, “mostly women and children, were slaughtered indiscriminately inside their homes at the hands of jihadists of the al-Nusra Front in Tal Abyad, Tal Hassil and Tal A’ran areas of Syrian Kurdistan from July 28 – August 2, 2013.”

http://www.opendemocracy.net/rozh-ahmad/mass-slaughter-of-civilian-kurds-in-syria-ignites-heavy-clashes-and-mass-exodus

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Because Putin is such a truthful, trustworthy fellow. /nt Drale Sep 2013 #1
Well, I've read that al Qaeda is affiliated with snappyturtle Sep 2013 #4
No. He's not. bunnies Sep 2013 #5
AQ and affiliates are a fragement of the Syrian resistance Harmony Blue Sep 2013 #2
They dominate the opposition. David__77 Sep 2013 #12
the opposition has "increasingly become more defined by its moderation ? dipsydoodle Sep 2013 #3
A liar calls a liar a liar. News at 11! last1standing Sep 2013 #6
This one was good, too jakeXT Sep 2013 #7
Kerry didn't say that - he said they'd work with the moderate opposition blm Sep 2013 #8
Do the facts really matter? ProSense Sep 2013 #9
He said jakeXT Sep 2013 #13
“I just don’t agree that the majority are al-Qaeda or bad guys, that’s just not true,” Kerry said. ProSense Sep 2013 #14
So he is saying it was more in the past and is getting better ? jakeXT Sep 2013 #15
Now there is a guy even more trustworthy than Putin. n/t ProSense Sep 2013 #16
Someone is lying or not doing their job...either Kerry or State Dept, Homeland Security or McCaul jakeXT Sep 2013 #21
Kerry denied that the Syrian opposition is degrading into Al-Qaeda Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #17
We get what he meant ...I posted what K. said..If it's a least untruthful answer, history will show jakeXT Sep 2013 #20
The factions THEY are working with are increasingly more moderate. blm Sep 2013 #18
So if you stop working with them, they just magically disappear ? poof, here are our 50 new CIA jakeXT Sep 2013 #19
Gawd, even the complicit MSM can't keep up with all the lies now Catherina Sep 2013 #10
Attacking Al-Qaeda in Syria FarCenter Sep 2013 #11
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