Last week, the word that the President intended for the USA to support Syrian rebels openly — after years of dithering that have seen any pro-Western group decimated, and few but Islamist extremists remaining in the field against Bashar Assad — hit the media. Then, the President followed up by speaking at West Point and telling the grads that thanks to him, they will serve in a smaller peacetime force… and waiting for reaction that didn’t come, to what he had thought was an applause line. (You do hear intermittent applause during the speech, but it’s all from his core fanbase in the press gallery).
Now, we learn how the USA is supporting Syrian rebels. Thanks to NBC via This Ain’t Hell:
Word of the American’s death in the suicide bombing first surfaced Tuesday in tweets from the al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-linked group fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The tweets identified the bomber only by his Arabic nom de guerre, “Abu Hurayra al-Amriki,” (Abu Hurayra the American) and said he carried out one of four suicide bombings of Syrian government sites in Jabal al-Arbaa’in in Idlib Province — the scene of heavy fighting in recent weeks and months.
“Abu Hurayra Al-Amriki performed a martrydom operation in Idlib, Jabal Al-Arba’een. May Allah accept him,” it said.
via Congrats to the US’ first known suicide bomber : This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here.
It’s uncertain what, if anything, this unnamed knucklehead blew up, except for himself; but that’s enough to make him a success in the topsy-turvy world of Islam.
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6 thoughts on “Ah. So this is how the President Supports Syrian Rebels”
“…and said he carried out one of four suicide bombings …”
I seriously doubt he would have carried out two.
He should have checked his to-do list before pushing the button!
What was the “martyr’s” avatar on DU or Daily Kos?
(You do hear intermittent applause during the speech, but it’s all from his core fanbase in the press gallery).
It was West Point. Somewhere in that crowd was someone aspiring to be a future Ray Odierno or Marty Dempsey. It’s highly likely that those types would have agreed with every one of Obama’s planned applause lines, and on the off chance that they didn’t they still knew that it was their job to applaud anyway.
“So this is how the President Supports Syrian Rebels”
Congrats to der Fuhrer Gluteus Maximus for his guidance to posterity.
there are no “non-terrorist” opponents of Assad’s Shi’ite regime. They all run along a narrow spectrum from, at best, Sunni Moslem Brotherhood crazies to outright Al-Q. Israel wants Assad taken down in order to cut the weapons/training line that runs from Shi’ite Iran —-> Shi’ite Iraq (thanks to Bush 43 and the Petrodollar War) —-> through to the Hezbollah Shia militia in S. Lebanon….selfsame who gave Israel a bloody nose in the ’06 border war. With Putin backing Assad this is, needless to say, another lost war for the ‘Kwa. And a good thing too. Empires that lose wars collapse all the quicker