Syrian Rebel Group Pledges Loyalty To al-Qaida

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5. DU'ers are wilfully ignorant or they just don't care.

You may have heard of the Free Syrian Army, the principal and largely secular opposition to Assad. You should also have heard that NATO etc. have a arms embargo on them, and all the other militias.

Yes the Jihardists have moved in. Sympathic Suadi's and an nation states, Qatar in particula,r has been only too willing to supply 'sympathic' Islamists with 'logistics'.

This is not Afghanistan in the 1980's, it's more like Bosnia in the 1990's. As missiles hit Sarajevo the EEC wringed it's hand' - 'it will only make things worse' - that's what was said.

One month ago Syrian opposition will boycott talks after Scud strike kills 23 in Aleppo

"The Syrian National Coalition decided Saturday to suspend participation in the US-led Rome conference of the Friends of Syria and decline the invitation to Moscow negotiations with the Syrian government due to open next week. This is in protest over the Scud missile strikes on Aleppo in which “hundreds of civilians were killed.”

Assad is getting weapons from Russia and Iran, al-Nusra from al-Qaida, Saudi sympathisers, Qatar and elsewhere, the secularists in the FSA in drips and drabs.

I respect the more isolationist views amongst DU'ers, but you're going to reap what you sow.