The Free Syrian Army fooled de facto President-elect Barack Obama, too: “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted.” — Barack Obama, September 2014 Obama-backed Free Syrian Army top dog: “Inshallah, we will go wherever there is Jihad” for “the Ottoman Caliphate” […]
Obama-backed Free Syrian Army top dog: “Inshallah, we will go wherever there is Jihad” for “the Ottoman Caliphate”
“We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted.” — Barack Obama, September 2014 “Commander in the Turkish-Backed Free Syrian Army: We Will Go to Libya, China, and Wherever There Is Jihad; We Are Willing to Sacrifice Our Lives and Our Children for […]
Free Syrian Army jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” mutilate, desecrate body of Kurdish female fighter
“’The footage,’ explains Kurdish outlet Rudaw, ‘captured on a mobile phone, shows the woman’s body spread out on a concrete floor surrounded by gunmen in military fatigues. Her bloodstained clothes have been partially removed exposing her breasts and genitals, parts of which appear to have been cut off.’ The men can be heard shouting ‘allahu […]
Austria: Moderate Muslim asylum seeker guilty of war crimes, killed 20 Syrian soldiers
This incident shows up, among other things, the uselessness of vetting procedures. Western authorities are looking for jihadis while denying the motivating ideology that fuels the jihad: it’s a recipe for letting mass murderers into one’s country. This one was with the Free Syrian Army, which a few years ago was the “moderate” favorite of […]
Video: American troops forced to flee from US-backed Syrian jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” and “Death to America”
The Free Syrian Army, according to the Obama administration, is made up of “vetted moderates.” Here are his “vetted moderates” screaming “Allahu akbar,” “Death to America,” “Christians and Americans have no place among us. They want to wage a crusader war to occupy Syria” and “The collaborators of America are dogs and pigs. They wage […]
Al-Qaeda jihadis seize bases, weapons from U.S.-backed “moderate” Syrian rebels
“The Nusra Front arrested U.S.-supplied fighters belonging to FSA’s 30th division last summer and seized their weapons in a major embarrassment to the U.S. government’s train-and-equip program which was meant to support carefully vetted ‘moderate’ rebels,” says this report. That echoes the President’s language: “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Obama’s Freudian Slip was true
In PJ Media today I discuss a strange case of Barack Obama accidentally telling the truth. Barack Obama, lauded for his allegedly spellbinding eloquence, sure makes a lot of verbal miscues: “57 states,” “my Muslim faith,” etc. If he were a conservative Republican, he would have long since been banished to the Dan Quayle Rest […]
Obama: “We’re speeding up training of ISIL forces”
The thing is, we are training ISIL forces. We have given weapons to groups that the Pentagon has designated as “moderate” — groups such as the Free Syrian Army, which has collaborated with the Islamic State. The Obama Administration’s avid and fruitless search for “moderates” to fight the Islamic State has put the U.S. in […]
Robert Spencer in PJM: Has Baghdad Bob Become Secretary of Defense?
Over at PJ Media I explain how we’re getting nowhere with the Islamic State, but you wouldn’t know that by listening to this administration: Remember Baghdad Bob? During the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, or “Baghdad Bob,” kept us laughing by repeatedly declaring that the Iraqi Army was humiliating […]