This is one of the “moderate” leaders whom John Kerry and others were confidently telling us quite recently would soon win out in Syria. “Syrian fighter defects to Qaeda-linked group,” by Basma Atassi for Al Jazeera, December 16 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): In a farmhouse in eastern Syria, a group of men sat around a … Continue reading Leader of West-backed Free Syrian Army defects to al-Qaeda group, calls FSA “apostates”