| inbluevt | Date: Friday, 2013/07/19, 9:16 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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With the Assad regime already on the rebound, violence has spiked between rebel Islamic militants and more moderate opposition combatants within Syria. Although tensions between such groups have existed for some time, changes in the Islamist lineup in Syria and perhaps impending Western arms shipments exclusively to moderate rebel groups have intensified rivalries. Hezbollah’s entry into the conflict, notable regime gains against the rebels overall, and now the possibility of a rebel-on-rebel conflict within a conflict could reduce considerably the likelihood that the rebels — any rebels — would succeed in taking down Assad and Co. in the near-term.
In just three months the character of the struggle in Syria has taken a dramatic turn in favor of the regime. Rebel forces, reportedly short of munitions of late, have been driven from some key positions near Damascus, along the Lebanese-Syrian frontier, and in central Syria in and around Homs. Since Islamic extremist rebels have been in the forefront of the fighting, shortages of munitions might well have resulted from initial European-US efforts to re-focus collective arms resupply more tightly to embrace only more moderate rebels. Meanwhile, the recent intervention of thousands of fanatical Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon replenished and reinvigorated the regime’s own depleted
infantry capabilities.
Rising violence between militant Islamist rebels and cadres of the more moderate “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) appears to have broken out following the assassination of FSA Supreme Military Council member Kamal Hamami by jihadists in Syria’s northern port city of Latakia on July 12 (where Hamami had previously organized one of the first successful FSA combat units). There are different accounts of how Hamami died, but it happened within territory controlled by the relatively new al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has been pushing aside the previously powerful jihadist al-Nusra Front. Hamami may have gone there for a meeting, and was killed by the ISIL.
Furthermore, the ISIL is not at all apologetic — quite the contrary.
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| Keithfan | Date: Saturday, 2013/07/20, 3:51 AM | Message # 2 | DMCA |
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I've been watching Al Jazeera for coverage on this, and an interesting thing happened this past week. One of the leaders of the Syrian opposition, Free Syrian Army, was murdered at a checkpoint by an Al Qaeda fighter, spurring a serious issue between the native Syrian opposition fighters, and Islamist outsiders who have come to Syria to join the opposition. The Syrian opposition demanded the murderer be turned over for justice, and that the Al Qaeda fighters must leave the country. I haven't heard whether or not the demand was satisfied.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news....17.html
http://rt.com/news/qaeda-militants-kill-fsa-commander-979
I wish someone would ask officials why the US government is planning to give military aid to Al Qaeda in Syria??? Who else thinks that might be a valid question?
What a nightmare.
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