Obama administration sending $45 million in aid to al Qaeda in Syria
September 29, 2012
By: Ryan Keller
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The Associated Press reported on Thursday that the Obama administration is seeking to “rally Syria’s opposition” against Bashar Al Assad by providing them with $45 million of taxpayer money in humanitarian aid and “non-lethal” supplies, such as communication equipment.
This is not the first time that the Obama administration has contributed taxpayer money to the Syrian rebels, sending them $12 million in August.
Though the AP refers to the rebel fighters merely as the “opposition,” they are actually made up of al Qaeda fighters, and by sending them money, the U.S. government is providing financial assistance to the very terrorist organization whose members are supposedly hiding in peoples’ pants at airports.
Jacques Bérès, founder of Doctors Without Borders and a physician who spent time in Syria treating injuries, told France Info in a recent interview that “at least half” of those he treated were al Qaeda fighters:
I would say at least half of them are Salafist Jihadists with the headband with Quranic verses, even the cars transporting them had Al-Qaeda flags on them, and the Salafist look with the mustache gone while keeping a beard.
He also mentioned treating two French jihadists who claimed Mohamed Merah as an “example to follow.” Merah killed seven people, including two French soldiers and several Jewish civilians, earlier this year in shootings in the French cities of Toulouse and Montauban.
This is not the first time the U.S. government has supported al Qaeda fighters during the Arab spring. Many of the current al Qaeda members in Syria are veterans of last year’s Libyan conflict, who were themselves al Qaeda members.
In an interview with an Italian newspaper that was reported on by the U.K. Telegraph, Libyan rebel leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi bragged that
he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".
Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".
He also mentioned that “he had earlier fought against ‘the foreign invasion’ in Afghanistan, before being ‘captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan’. He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008.”
As veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, many of those Libyan fighters had killed American troops.
In November, the Telegraph further reported that the black flag of al Qaeda was flying over the Benghazi courthouse, which is “considered to be the seat of the revolution,” and “that Islamists had been seen driving around the city's streets, waving the Al Qaeda flag from their cars and shouting ‘Islamiya, Islamiya! No East, nor West’.”
Even though the U.S. government is supporting known al Qaeda fighters, the president has been given the authority to indefinitely detain anyone in the world, including American citizens, for supporting al Qaeda. But don't expect anyone in the government to be arrested for aiding terrorists.
.....I thought by now the powers that be at the UN would have tracked you down....you be some slippery dude....lol.
They just can't seem to hold on to me long!
