posted on Jan, 7 2013 @ 12:45 PM
reply to post by Fichorka
Everyone knows that Al-Qa’ida have a presence in Syria, nobody can deny that the real question is what is the wests relation with them
The issue is that due largely to people not understanding the complex nature of Al-Qa’ida is that they understandable assume that because the Free
Syria Army gets support from the west that this means that the west is supporting Al-Qa’ida in Syria.
This is not true.
The role of Al-Qa’ida in Syria actually stems from a group known as the “Organisation of Jihads Base in Mesopotamia” or Al-Qa’ida in Iraq.
Many of these insurgents have moved across the border into Syria because they see an opportunity to create a Islamic state inside Syria. To achieve
this; the abolishment of the secular Assad regime falls within their goals and the fierce fighting in Syria presents a opportunity to achieve this.
Like the FSA then they shear a common objective but for different reasons, the FSA is a nationalist movement, Al-Qa’ida’s is an Islamismist
movement. Al-Qa’ida in Syria is widely believed to actually be the Al-Nusra front which is strongly affiliated with Al-Qa’ida. Officially
Al-Nusra is not part of the FSA and does not receive any funding form the west and has officially been denounced as a terrorist group by America,
however there is evidence it is funded by Saudi-Aribia and Qutar.
In any case the FSA and Al-Nusra have the same goals but for different reasons and the west in particularly America is only to aware of this. What is
also apparent is that the west has positioned itself in a political stance that effectively says that Assad must go and we (the west) must support
this in other words they want Assad out. What is problematic however is who takes charge after Assad, it is the view of the west that he will fall and
when he does there will be a power vacuum and the strongest fraction against Assad will fill this gap.
This leaves the west in a predicament; if the growth of Al-Nusra and other Islamism groups gains momentum and becomes the dominant fraction then they
will fill this gap and take control of Syria and its WMDs. To prevent this the only thing the west can do is ensure that the nationalist FSA takes
over, they are the best of a bad bunch and by backing them the west can influence them when (if) they take charge.
So when you see articles about any western state providing support to the FSA they are not meaning Al-Qa’ida.
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