Syria Emerging as World’s Most Alarming Terrorist Threat

[Jroc]

Lets send them some weapons

Counterterrorism experts fear that Syria is emerging as the world’s most alarming terrorist threat as thousands of foreign jihadists stream in to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the New York Times reports.

Many of the foreign fighters have joined the al-Nusra Front, a well-organized and well-armed al-Qaeda-linked rebel group.


But others are assembling under a new, even more extreme umbrella group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, that is merging some Syrians with fighters from around the world — Chechnya, Pakistan, Egypt and the West, as well as Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgent group that rose to prominence in the fight against the American occupation in the years after the 2003 invasion. The concern is that a new affiliate of al Qaeda could be emerging from those groups.

It was the fear of militants coming to dominate the opposition that caused the United States and its Western allies to hold off providing lethal aid to the Syrian opposition, at least until now. But as a result, counterterrorism analysts say, they lost a chance to influence the battle in Syria. Even congressional supporters of the C.I.A.’s covert program to arm moderate elements of the Syrian opposition fear the delivery of weapons, set to begin this month, will be too little, too late.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Bill Gertz previously reported that al Qaeda-linked rebel groups, which have gained a foothold in northeastern Syria as Assad’s forces retake areas in the south and east, killed a key commander of the more moderate and U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) last month

Syria Emerging as World's Most Alarming Terrorist Threat | Washington Free Beacon

 

[Bloodrock44]

Lets send them some weapons

Counterterrorism experts fear that Syria is emerging as the world’s most alarming terrorist threat as thousands of foreign jihadists stream in to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the New York Times reports.

Many of the foreign fighters have joined the al-Nusra Front, a well-organized and well-armed al-Qaeda-linked rebel group.


But others are assembling under a new, even more extreme umbrella group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, that is merging some Syrians with fighters from around the world — Chechnya, Pakistan, Egypt and the West, as well as Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgent group that rose to prominence in the fight against the American occupation in the years after the 2003 invasion. The concern is that a new affiliate of al Qaeda could be emerging from those groups.

It was the fear of militants coming to dominate the opposition that caused the United States and its Western allies to hold off providing lethal aid to the Syrian opposition, at least until now. But as a result, counterterrorism analysts say, they lost a chance to influence the battle in Syria. Even congressional supporters of the C.I.A.’s covert program to arm moderate elements of the Syrian opposition fear the delivery of weapons, set to begin this month, will be too little, too late.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Bill Gertz previously reported that al Qaeda-linked rebel groups, which have gained a foothold in northeastern Syria as Assad’s forces retake areas in the south and east, killed a key commander of the more moderate and U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) last month

Syria Emerging as World's Most Alarming Terrorist Threat | Washington Free Beacon

But...but...but...I thought Al Qaeda was on the run and Bin Laden was dead? And Bin Laden was dead but General Motors is alive.

 

[Jroc]

Lets send them some weapons

Counterterrorism experts fear that Syria is emerging as the world’s most alarming terrorist threat as thousands of foreign jihadists stream in to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the New York Times reports.

Many of the foreign fighters have joined the al-Nusra Front, a well-organized and well-armed al-Qaeda-linked rebel group.


But others are assembling under a new, even more extreme umbrella group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, that is merging some Syrians with fighters from around the world — Chechnya, Pakistan, Egypt and the West, as well as Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgent group that rose to prominence in the fight against the American occupation in the years after the 2003 invasion. The concern is that a new affiliate of al Qaeda could be emerging from those groups.

It was the fear of militants coming to dominate the opposition that caused the United States and its Western allies to hold off providing lethal aid to the Syrian opposition, at least until now. But as a result, counterterrorism analysts say, they lost a chance to influence the battle in Syria. Even congressional supporters of the C.I.A.’s covert program to arm moderate elements of the Syrian opposition fear the delivery of weapons, set to begin this month, will be too little, too late.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Bill Gertz previously reported that al Qaeda-linked rebel groups, which have gained a foothold in northeastern Syria as Assad’s forces retake areas in the south and east, killed a key commander of the more moderate and U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) last month

Syria Emerging as World's Most Alarming Terrorist Threat | Washington Free Beacon

But...but...but...I thought Al Qaeda was on the run and Bin Laden was dead? And Bin Laden was dead but General Motors is alive.

Before the election they were "on the run".. Now? not so much