The Obama Regime and the Nation building Wing of the GOP continue to salivate over intervention in Syria. Despite evidence that al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing; al-Nusra Front is the backbone of the rebellion, they still claim it is a freedom based movement. WHne presented with evidence that the rebels are Islamists, our officials claim there is a Secular component to the rebels. It turns out this is a bald face lie. In a rare piece of journalism, the NY Times exposes that even the Syrian rebels not aligned with al-Qaeda are Islamists themselves of the Muslim Brotherhood variety and want an Islamic state in Syria or as they call it Balad al-Sham.
CAIRO — In Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, rebels aligned with Al Qaeda control the power plant, run the bakeries and head a court that applies Islamic law. Elsewhere, they have seized government oil fields, put employees back to work and now profit from the crude they produce.
Across Syria, rebel-held areas are dotted with Islamic courts staffed by lawyers and clerics, and by fighting brigades led by extremists. Even the Supreme Military Council, the umbrella rebel organization whose formation the West had hoped would sideline radical groups, is stocked with commanders who want to infuse Islamic law into a future Syrian government.
Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.
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Among the most extreme groups is the notorious Al Nusra Front, the Qaeda-aligned force declared a terrorist organization by the United States, but other groups share aspects of its Islamist ideology in varying degrees.
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When the armed rebellion began, defectors from the government’s staunchly secular army formed the vanguard. The rebel movement has since grown to include fighters with a wide range of views, including Qaeda-aligned jihadis seeking to establish an Islamic emirate, political Islamists inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood and others who want an Islamic-influenced legal code like that found in many Arab states.
“My sense is that there are no seculars,” said Elizabeth O’Bagy, of the Institute for the Study of War, who has made numerous trips to Syria in recent months to interview rebel commanders.
Our political leaders are lying to us about who we are giving aid to. They claim we are helping the secular faction of the rebels to provide balance to al-Qaeda. In reality, this secular force is the Muslim Brotherhood’s Free Syrian Army. Americans are being lied to about the Syrian war by the fake god-king Obama and the McCain Wing of the GOP.
America needs to stay out of this Islamic mafia turf war and let these savages kill each other.
Update: Syrian rebels claim Israeli warplanes were spotted over Assad’s palace.
A Syrian rebel army spokesman said Sunday that Israeli Air Force fighter jets were observed circling in sky over Damascus. He said the planes flew over Assad’s palace and over security and military institutions in the Syrian capital.
Update II: The airplanes spotted over Assad’s palace are alleged to have struck a Chemical Weapons site outside of Damascus.
DAMASCUS, Syria, April 28 (UPI) — The Free Syrian Army says Israeli air force jets flew over President Bashar Assad’s palace and bombed a chemical weapons site near Damascus, Maariv reported.
The report said the Israeli jets entered Syria’s airspace close to 6 a.m Saturday and flew over Assad’s palace in Damascus and other security facilities before striking a chemical weapons compound near the city.
