#MyJihad in Syria: Al-Qaeda group claims jihad murders of Assad loyalists, France urges funding for rebels

Fabius wants Western countries to fund the rebels in order to keep the jihadists at bay. However, he offers no means to distinguish the rebels who are not jihadists from those who are. And "Islamic militants have been the most organized fighters battling government troops." So France is essentially urging funding of the people it is fighting in Mali. "Al-Qaida-linked group claims deadly Syria blast," by Barbara Surk for the Associated Press, January 28 (thanks to Maxwell):

BEIRUT (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked group fighting alongside Syrian rebels claimed responsibility Monday for a suicide car bombing that reportedly killed dozens of President Bashar Assad's loyalists last week.
In Paris, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius pleaded for countries to honor their pledges of funding and other aid to the Syrian opposition to keep the country out of the hands of Islamist militant groups.

"If we don't give the means to the Syrian people to go achieve their freedom, there is a risk, and we all know it exists, that massacres and antagonisms amplify, and that extremism and terrorism prevail.

"Chaos is not tomorrow, it is today, and we need to end it. We need to end it in a peaceful way and that means increased and concrete support to the Syrian National Coalition."

Islamic militants have been the most organized fighters battling government troops in the 22-month-old conflict in which more than 60,000 people have been killed. Their growing prominence has fueled fears that Muslim radicals might try to hijack the revolt, and has contributed to the West's hesitance to equip the opposition with sophisticated weapons.

Jabhat al-Nusra, which the U.S. says has ties to al-Qaida and has declared a terrorist organization, said in a statement posted online that one of its suicide bombers detonated a car bomb last Monday at the headquarters of a pro-government militia in the central province of Hama. It said the bomber drove a truck packed with explosives to the militia's complex in the town of Salamiya and blew himself up "to give the tyrannical regime a taste" of violence it has been inflicting on the Syrian people.

Activists said at least 42 people, mostly pro-Assad militiamen, were killed in the blast. The government did not say how many people were killed, although state-run SANA news agency published photographs of what it said was a funeral procession for the blast's victims on Wednesday. In one of the photographs, a dozen men are seen standing behind 11 caskets, wrapped into a Syrian flag.

Jabhat al-Nusra has previously targeted government institutions in Damascus with suicide bombers and has led successful attacks on military bases and strategic territory in the country's north....

In France, Fabius pleaded for countries to keep their promises of financial aid to the Syrian opposition or risk compromising the legitimacy of the Syrian National Coalition in the eyes of the people fighting the Assad regime.

The opposition coalition was formed in November. More than 100 countries have back the umbrella group, decreeing it the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people. France was the first to confer such recognition.

"We have to give the Syrian people a clear signal: We are at your side," Fabius told representatives of some 50 nations....

And al-Qaeda's.

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Stephanie | January 28, 2013 11:31 AM | Reply

(graphic video) U.S. President Obama backed Syrian "rebels" against Government supporter
http://schnellmann.org/syrian-rebels-against-government-supporter.html

Be shure to thank Obama for his support of Syrian "rebles" (i.e. savages) who want "Arab Spring" democracy in full flower!

LemonLime | January 28, 2013 3:31 PM | Reply

"So France is essentially urging funding of the people it is fighting in Mali."

This gem of Spencer's -- a true gem, which I mean without a shred of sarcasm -- is unsuitably buried amid this report: for this gem with searingly acute precision crystallizes the entire folly of the entire West in its response to the entire problem of Islam not only in 2013, but ever since 911 (if not also in the decades immediately preceding).

The West for years has been literally, and figuratively, funding and supporting, in one way or another, the very same Muslims it is, haphazardly and half-assedly, defending itself from.

And the West continues, to this very day, with this insane, increasingly reckless program full speed ahead -- energetically, robustly, earnestly, expensively.

exsgtbrown | January 28, 2013 6:18 PM | Reply

." So France is essentially urging funding of the people it is fighting in Mali.

le doh!!!

darmanad | January 28, 2013 6:27 PM | Reply

"Islamic militants have been the most organized fighters battling government troops."

Iran supports Alawite Assad so one can assume that the most organized Islamic rebels are Sunni, or at least not friendly with Shiite Iran. It's a beauty contest with no possible winner.

fitna | January 29, 2013 12:23 AM | Reply

I actually kind of like the idea of funding both sides of the jihad when it's muslims fighting muslims. That's one way to eliminate this death cult.

gravenimage | January 29, 2013 3:06 PM | Reply

#MyJihad in Syria: Al-Qaeda group claims jihad murders of Assad loyalists, France urges funding for rebels
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Yes—and we'll face the same sort of insanity that we've found in Libya, where we funded the very Jihadists who torched our consulate and slaughtered our diplomats.

Suicidal madness.

So France is essentially urging funding of the people it is fighting in Mali.
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Yes—and this is emblematic of the whole muddled attempts on the epart of the West to actually fight Jihad—that is, when we have bothered to try to fight it at all.

You see much of the same idiocy in Afghanistan and Iraq, from which we appear to have learned nothing.

But then, we are laboring under a willful ignorance of Islam, and the closely entwined tenets of political correctness, which ensure that this ignorance will continue.

"If we don't give the means to the Syrian people to go achieve their freedom, there is a risk, and we all know it exists, that massacres and antagonisms amplify, and that extremism and terrorism prevail.
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This well-meaning twit doesn't appear to understand that this "freedom" the "Islamists" are fighting for in Syria looks an awful lot like the Islamic tyranny France is fighting in northern Mal—that, in fact, the Syrian rebels strongly support the brutal Shari'ah state in northern Mali against France herself:

"Syrian Rebel Jihadists Threaten To Attack France In Retaliation For Mali Offensive"

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/26/syrian-rebel-jihadists-threaten-to-attack-france-in-retaliation-for-mali-offensive/

Islamic militants have been the most organized fighters battling government troops in the 22-month-old conflict in which more than 60,000 people have been killed. Their growing prominence has fueled fears that Muslim radicals might try to hijack the revolt, and has contributed to the West's hesitance to equip the opposition with sophisticated weapons.
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And now, France is urging against this modicum of Western sanity...

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