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Main U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group disbanding, joining jihadists

Mar 5, 2015 10:01 am By Robert Spencer

jihadist3“Charles Lister, an analyst with U.S, [sic] think tank Brookings, described in a tweet the implosion of the group as ‘absolutely remarkable.'” Brookings is a Qatar-funded institution that consistently downplays, denies, and obfuscates the reality of the global jihad threat. This development is only “remarkable” to anyone who was credulous enough to believe that these groups were “moderate” in the first place.

“Main U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Disbanding, Joining Islamists,” by Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast, March 1, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

One of the last moderate Syrian rebel groups trusted by Washington is waving the white flag—and picking up the Islamists’ black one.

The Syrian rebel group Harakat al-Hazm, one of the White House’s most trusted militias fighting President Bashar al-Assad, collapsed Sunday, with activists posting a statement online from frontline commanders saying they are disbanding their units and folding them into brigades aligned with a larger Islamist insurgent alliance distrusted by Washington.

The statement bore Hazm’s stamp and logo, and according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, the brigade’s fighting units are disbanding. Emails and phone calls to Hazm’s political leaders were not returned.

“Given what is happening on the Syrian front, offenses by the criminal regime with its cronies against Syria as a whole, and Aleppo specifically, and in an effort to stem the bloodshed of the fighters, the Hazm movement announces its dissolution,” the statement said.

Charles Lister, an analyst with U.S, think tank Brookings, described in a tweet the implosion of the group as “absolutely remarkable.”

The apparent implosion comes just weeks after the Obama administration halved its funding of the 4,000-strong secular brigade—one of several more moderate rebel militias that have seen their U.S. funding cut or scaled back since Christmas. …

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  1. Edison says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 10:13 am

    Did anyone think this wasn’t coming?

    • cs says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 1:30 pm

      Ow, the caught me completely off guard on this one!!!!

      not.

  2. Hindu American says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 10:42 am

    NO…….How dare the “good” jihadists renege on their “hand-shake” agreement with us?

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 10:51 am

    The Gulf states wanted a pipeline route through Syria and created the entire Sunni uprising to implement their plan. Turkey collaborated with this Machiavellian plan.

    The momumental suffering is caused by Soddy Barbaria and Qatar and Iran.

  4. Don McKellar says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 10:52 am

    If the way to determine if a United States President was good or bad is by looking at the state of the world when he came into office and the state of the world when he left, and how his policies and actions influenced the events — then Barack Obama is the worst president in American history. He’s even got George the Idiot beat at this point and he’s not done yet! Absolutely astounding.

  5. Jaladhi says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 11:02 am

    Ha, ha, ha,.. All Muslims are same. They may fight one another one day and next day they will join together to wage jihad against us! Let there be a lesson for all non-Muslims – never ever trust a Muslim. His only allegiance is to Mo/allah, Islam and Muslims, he will never, never truly join us to fight other Muslims. Surely there are many Muslim nations who are apparently with us now but in the end they will join the other side in a nanosecond!!

    • cs says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 1:32 pm

      That is why I cannot trust the pallis.

    • M S case says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 7:01 pm

      My old statement holds true.. “When the sword is placed against the neck of, even a so called, moderate muslim and given the option of life or death the one whose neck the sword is against will become what the sword bearer is”.

  6. Ricky Black says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 11:10 am

    There are no moderate muslims only dumb ones and ones that read the Koran. I’m waiting for Imam Obama to strap on a vest. The next two years are going to be rough. If Jesus told me to go and fight disbelievers, guess what I’d be the first one. But Jesus told me to Love my enemies. You can have all the Love and compassion in the world but you can’t sleep with a mad dog.

  7. Kepha says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 11:39 am

    Once again, the high-minded American search for a “Third Force” in some crisis-wracked region goes kaputt. You’d think that our policy community would’ve learned by now.

  8. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    Contortionist Dreams

    It just became more difficult for O’Reilly, Ollie, Sean and all the generals who are Fox News Analysts to do their contortion backflip double gainer moves when discussing our options in the Levant. I don’t mention the news entertainers from the other networks, they don’t even try. But Fox does try to make sense of things over in Dar al-Islam, and the key fictive fact they always come back to are the moderate Moslem Syrians who are fighting Assad. We can trust them, they say, these are reliable people we can trust with weapons and ammo, and money, they are viable allies. Al-Nusra. Ollie likes to leverage his sightseeing trips he has made over to Anbar Province to talk about the tribes who were our allies in the surge. They’re regarded the same as Al-Nusra, reliable Moslem guys we can trust with weapons and ammo and money.

    But what’s in an ally these days? On the baked sands of Arabia we have our Saudi and Qatar allies, in the Punjab we have our Paki allies, and in Asia Minor we have our Turk allies. Add to that witch’s brew Al-Nusra and the tribes of Anbar.

    • M S case says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 7:03 pm

      In the long run our trust turns to rust.

  9. Kuffar says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    I am shocked, shocked I tell you. How is it that the Jeffersonian son of Syrian Liberty could go over to the “dark side”…

  10. Nicu says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    No surprise at all .

    when the US government dislikes another government they cause ” revolutions ” !

  11. Angemon says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    Will the Obama administration stop supporting them now?

  12. RonaldB says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    Recall that past Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized Obama for not removing Syrian President Assad fast enough. Present Republican contender Bobby Jindal just recently stated Assad must be removed.

    It seems patently obvious that once the Assad government falls, a power vacuum will be created that ISIS will fill, probably sooner than later. I don’t understand why the officials in the US government, from the President down, seem determined to intervene in political situations they know nothing about. US interventions have uniformly turned out disastrous, beginning with the withdrawal of our support for our staunch ally, the Shah of Iran, in 1979.

    The situation is not new. Will and Ariel Durrant, in their “The Story of Civilization” recounted how Rome had conquered all the independent states surrounding it in Italy, replacing them with passive dependencies. The irony was, soon afterwards, Hannibal marched through Roman territory on his quest to conquer Rome. They pointed out that Hannibal would never have made it to Rome itself if Rome had left the independent states, as each would have found fiercely against the Carthaginian incursion on their territory.

    It is very much in the interests of the United States to have separate, stable, independent states in the Middle East. It’s not even so important if they are considered friends or enemies of the United States. What’s important is that they have a stable existence, and that they don’t trust their neighbors, which is as natural as mother’s milk to a Muslim country.

    The United States deposed Saddam Hussein in Iraq, although he more-or-less complied with weapons inspections and was not really a threat. The US deposed Gaddaffy in Libya, although Gaddaffy had openly destroyed his chemical weapons and complied completely with US demands. The US supported the overthrow of Mubarak, a consistent friend of the US who also worked well with Israel. Now, the US is trying to overthrow Assad, the only government consistently capable of throwing back ISIS.

    Seems like the US is its own worst enemy.

    Oh, yes, before I forget it. Whichever group in Syria that was last getting US support when ISIS takes them over, will be claiming refugee status and seeking admission to the US.

  13. duh_swami says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 5:29 am

    Passing up the political analysis…the bottom line is this…’never trust anyone who believes Allah is God’…If you do that and something goes wrong it’s on you…

  14. Lloyd Miller says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 6:02 am

    When does Roberts Spencer start to report that Islam, via OPEC cash, has bought the West’s financial elite via investments? The real explanation for the Media’s and Academy’s pro-Islamic nonsense is the patronage of this financial Elite, now a 5th column for their OPEC investors. Read David Rockefellers AUTOBIOGRAPHY for a laundered outline of what is happening.

  15. cesar bento says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 7:51 am

    Obama and americans, do not be fool, naive, a muslim that follows the Quran will never be a friend of westerners…Allah command them to war ti infidels….And nothing more!

  16. Larry A. Singleton says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 9:37 am

    No Surprise.

    SYRIA 5-20-14

    “Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of” — New York Times, April 28, 2013

    Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda — USA Today, April 11, 2013

    The Covert Origins of ISIS (You Tube)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI&list=PLkiifwjLYmSL531-K07rfleTIIxe5mIlY&index=69

    Obama’s “vetted” moderate Free Syrian Army collaborating with Islamic State
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/obamas-vetted-moderate-free-syrian-army-collaborating-with-islamic-state
    “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.” (Beagle-Jihad Watch)

    Syria: Sunni “rebels” hang 4-year old shiite boy after murdering his whole family
    Damascus: The Swiss-magazine reports that a four-year-old boy had to witness how his mother, father, sisters, brothers and grandparents were murdered. After that he was kicked and punched and publicly hanged in the district of Zainab in Damascus.
    http://sheikyermami.com/syria-sunni-rebels-hang-4-year-old-shiite-boy-after-murdering-his-whole-family/

    Toddler in Syria reportedly chained to a fence and made to watch jihadis from the ranks of the “Free Syrian Army” kill her Shia parents.
    http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/shias-the-arab-springs-latest-victims/

    Syria: Jihadist rebels murder 15-year-old boy for blasphemy
    Rebels (terrorists) fighting the Syrian regime have shot dead a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents and siblings after accusing him of blasphemy, an activist group said.
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/syria-jihadist-rebels-murder-15-year-old-boy-for-blasphemy.html

    Interfaith outreach in Syria: Obama-backed jihadists behead priest as crowd chants “Allahu akbar”
    The Vatican is confirming the death by beheading of Franciscan Father, Francois Murad, who was martyred by Syrian jihadists on June 23.
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/interfaith-outreach-in-syria-obama-backed-jihadists-behead-priest-as-crowd-chants-allahu-akbar.html

    Syria: Muslims behead Christian, stab him with crucifix (Video of mother)
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/syria-muslims-behead-christian-stab-him-with-crucifix

    Syria: Muslims force Christian to accept Islam, then behead him (Jihad Watch)
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/syria-muslims-force-christian-to-accept-islam-then-behead-him

    Syrian Rebels Behead And Kill Children In Historic Christian Village
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avu6hhvJWos

    Muslims Crucify Two Teen Boys for Being Christians
    http://eaglerising.com/6257/muslims-crucify-two-teen-boys-christians/

    GRAPHIC – Syria – Al-Nusra terrorist beheads a citizen in Homs for his political attitude http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7a5_1391379546
    Rotten, sick, Muslim scum.

    Whose sarin? By Seymour M. Hersh
    http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin

    The Cairo Speech by Anne Bayefsky (Ass Kicking)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/node/182912/print

    Daylight: The Story of Obama and Israel (Israel Video Network)
    http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-1-movie-that-unmasks-obama-and-his-attitude-to-israel-nearly-12-mil-views

    Daylight: The Story of Obama and Israel (You Tube)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbH5KVPrPo#t=400

    Absolutely Uncertain (You Tube video by “Irina”)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgvMGLdc908&list=PLC2A32D103123C08E#t=73
    18-minute mini-documentary follows the journey of Irina, a 23-year-old liberal, Jewish New Yorker who voted for Obama in 2008

    Egypt: “Why Not Us?” by Michael Armanious
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4062/egypt-why-not-us

  17. cs says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 10:38 am

    We have to respect their right of decision, their free will, and their beautiful ideology. We on our side have no other option than to kick the shit out of them ASAP.

  18. albert says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    British and American traitors were executed during the second world war, some of our leaders and their minions are either unbelievably stupid, or as I think they are a fifth column of traitors who want the Jihadis to triumph.

  19. Jerry says

    Mar 7, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    Qatar not only downplays Jihad. I actively finances it.

    It also financially supported the election and re-election of the Obamination in the WH.

  20. thehalalporkchop says

    Mar 8, 2015 at 3:21 am

    This is a problem. How is Obama going to run guns to ISIS now.

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