While Americans were waving flags, marching in
parades honoring our fallen military the senior Senator from Arizona was having
a Jane Fonda moment with sworn enemies of anyone not Muslim. Remember he also made a trip to Libya to meet with the rebels he called "freedom fighters" who went on to attack the American Embassy and kill Ambassador Stevens and three others. Maybe McCain should stay out of the middle east.
Excerpted from EXAMINER
Members of the Free Syrian Army
reportedly attacked the Christian-dominated al-Duvair village in Reef on the
outskirts of Homs on Monday, where they massacred its citizens, including women
and children, before the Syrian Army interfered. This reported attack comes
shortly after intense fighting in the city of al-Qusseir over the weekend, in
which Bashar Al-Assad’s forces inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels.
Assad’s forces launched an offensive in April in an effort to cut off supply
lines to the rebels by taking the city and its surrounding areas from the rebel
groups that had been entrenched there since last year. Two weeks ago, the
Syrian forces reached the center of the city.
While the sources describing Monday’s massacre are supportive of Assad, it’s
possible that it occurred since the rebel groups fighting the Assad regime are
composed mainly of members of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda affiliated groups and have
committed war crimes and atrocities in the past.
Jabhat al-Nusra, the branch of al-Qaeda that fought and killed American and
allied troops in Iraq, have positioned themselves in Syria and control the
rebel movement.
The U.S. and other Western governments that are backing the FSA have
acknowledged the presence of jihadists but insist that they’re only a small
part of the rebel movement. However, al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist
groups have been at the front of the rebel movement since day one of the Syrian
war that began two years ago. According to German intelligence, 95 percent of
the rebels aren’t even Syrian.
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Syria
“Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak
of,” the New York Times reported last month.
In April, Abou Mohamad al-Joulani, the head of al-Nusra, pledged allegiance to
Ayman al-Zawahri, the head of al-Qaeda.
Members of the FSA have admitted that their plan is to institute sharia law,
and the rebels now have a brigade named the Osama bin Laden Brigade.
Despite the evidence of al-Qaeda connections, the U.S. government continues to
support the FSA.
Last week, Sens. Robert Menendez, D.-N.J., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., drafted a
bill that, if passed, would directly arm the Syrian rebels with lethal
weaponry. The U.S. government has so far only provided non-lethal supplies and
humanitarian aid.
On Monday, Sen. John McCain made a surprise visit to Syria where he met with
Gen. Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the FSA. McCain
has also called for arming the rebels as well as direct U.S. military
intervention
