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Obama’s “vetted” moderate Free Syrian Army collaborating with Islamic State

Sep 9, 2014 6:17 pm By Robert Spencer

“We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted.” How did he vet them? Given his warm support for jihadis and Islamic supremacists in Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere, and his consistent denial of the reality of the jihad doctrine within Islam, it is doubtful that he has any useful criteria for determining what is a “moderate” anyway. And the FSA’s collaboration with the Islamic State proves that.

“Daily Jihad: Obama’s ‘Vetted’ Free Syrian Army Joining Forces With Islamic State Terror Group,” by Jordan Schachtel, Breitbart, September 9, 2014:

The US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), Al Nusra Front, and the Islamic State have paired together in order to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Armed Forces, according to statements from multiple commanders from within the FSA.

“We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front by attacking the Syrian Army’s gatherings in… Qalamoun,” said Bassel Idriss, a commander of a Free Syrian Army brigade. “Our battle is with the Assad regime, and it is on Syrian lands only,” he told to Lebanon’s Daily Star.

According to another Free Syrian Army commander, the combining of forces with the Islamist terror outfits was needed in order to achieve the greater good. “We have reached a point where we have to collaborate with anyone against unfairness and injustice,” said FSA commander Abu Khaled. “Let’s face it: The Nusra Front is the biggest power present right now in Qalamoun and we as FSA would collaborate on any mission they launch as long as it coincides with our values,” the commander concluded.

Over the weekend, President Obama told NBC’s Chuck Todd: “we have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted. They have been on the defensive, not just from ISIL, but also from the Assad regime. And what-you know, if you recall, at the West Point speech that I gave, I said, we need to put more resources into the moderate opposition..”

In July, several factions within the Free Syrian Army decided to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.

The Obama administration has over the past couple years delivered weapons and supplies to the Free Syrian Army. According to intelligence assessments, the United States has trained some 20,000 FSA fighters. The administration reportedly has provided FSA with small arms, assault rifles, shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenades, and TOW anti-tank missiles. A US official told the NY Daily News that the Central Intelligence Agency was training the FSA on how to use the weapons that the US had agreed to distribute.

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  1. the Oracle says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    Didn’t Breitbart just get audited by…let me guess…the IRS?

    • Beagle says

      Sep 9, 2014 at 7:24 pm

      Yes. Obama makes Nixon look like Washington or Lincoln. This is what happens when a Justice Department is wholly corrupt and most of the press acts as a palace guard or groupie instead of a watchdog.

      • jackcandobutwont says

        Sep 10, 2014 at 10:34 am

        Holder should be in gitmo…along with bobo and his possee.

        Holder is responsible for ruby ridge, waco, he sold explosives to timity mcveigh, and folks should read up on PATCON!!

  2. Kepha says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    Our policy community is a bunch of blind men leading other blind men, with all falling into the ditch. The main lesson we should’ve taken from the FSA and its readiness to join with ISIL (and turn over an American hostage for execution as a token of its good faith) ought to have been to stay aloof from that conflict–and quietly re-build our human intelligence capabilities until one day, Abubekr al-Baghdadi finds himself back in Gitmo.

  3. nacazo says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    Taking bets on how many times will Obama say that IS has nothing to do with Islam at tomorrow’s address regarding the situation in Iraq and Syria.

  4. chai says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 1:27 am

    Let’s hope Obama isn’t planning on using ISIS as an excuse to overtly topple Assad.

    Doing so would put the US right in the middle of a millennia long war between Sunni and Shiite. Not to mention the possibility of a miscalculation with Russia or Iran both supporting Assad.

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 2:53 am

    I seem to recall reading, a while ago, that some of the Assyrian Christians in Iraq had decided they’d had enough of being butchered like sheep, and were trying to get hold of weapons and fight back.

    *That’s* the only group in Syria or in Iraq that’s worth arming and training…to the hilt. Get hold of people who’ve studied Orde Wingate’s Special Night Squads, and what he did with his “Gideon Force” in Ethiopia; send them in to *train* and help those desperate people who, with their backs to the wall, facing genocide, facing the abyss of Nothing that is Islam-by-the-book, have decided to break the dhimma and *stop* submitting.

    And to be blunt, if the world’s infidels knew what they were doing, which they do not, then both Russia *and* the USA would be backing the Assyrian Christians – in Iraq and in Syria – and figuring out how to gather them up and consolidate them and arm them and help them establish a defensible **Muslim-free** sovereign country, either in part of historic Syria, or along with the Maronites in the core territory of Lebanon, a Mont Liban redivivus, guaranteed and armed and backed to the hilt by *both* the world’s largest non-Muslim majority-nominally-Christian nations.

  6. duh_swami says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 5:07 am

    In another incarnation in a land far, far away, Obama said this…
    “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

    Since when is it a Presidential duty to protect the image of Islam? Only Mahoundins are interested in that. Them and some kuffar useful idiots. And what does he mean ‘partner’ with Islam? Allah has no partners.
    He won’t talk about any of that tomorrow and no one will ask him…

    • sidney penny says

      Sep 10, 2014 at 10:43 am

      “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t.

      America (as a country) should have partners with other countries not religions.

      • mortimer says

        Sep 10, 2014 at 11:38 am

        Let’s turn ISLAMISM into ISLAM ISN’T.

  7. Lookmann says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 8:39 am

    Second US victim Sotloff was ‘sold’ by moderate rebels to Isis for $50,000′, as per reports.

    What kind of moderate people are these?

    Not to forget the ‘moderate’ syrian rebel who was found eating dead soldiers’s heart.

  8. mortimer says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 11:36 am

    If Obama is not an actual Muslim, he is acting as one.

  9. gts58 says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    There are “No Moderate Muslims” in Syria! Any weapons given to them will end up in the hands of ISIS/ISIL and be used to kill more innocent people. These so called moderate Muslims sold the American reporters to ISIS for 25K and took hostages on the Israeli border. Obama is about to screw up yet again! Obama is a walking talking clusterf**k!

  10. CogitoErgoSum says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 12:00 am

    Is there a “moderate” form of cancer? The enemy is Islam … and that includes ANYONE who supports its existence ANYWHERE on this planet.

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