{"id":6221,"date":"2015-03-05T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2015-03-05T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T12:00:31","slug":"us-considering-openly-arming-syrian-al-qaeda-faction-al-nusra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6221","title":{"rendered":"US Considering Openly Arming Syrian al-Qaeda Faction, al-Nusra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/03\/us-considering-openly-arming-syrian-al-qaeda-faction-al-nusra.html\" target=\"_blank\">US Considering Openly Arming Syrian al-Qaeda Faction, al-Nusra<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As reported at\u00a0<a title=\"Antiwar.com\" href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2015\/03\/04\/rebranding-us-may-look-to-al-qaeda-faction-as-new-moderate-allies-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antiwar.com<\/a>, the US and some of its regional client dictatorships are prodding\u00a0the major al-Qaeda faction operating in Syria, a brutal terrorist group called al-Nusra, to \u201cre-brand\u201d so the US can openly arm it.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia\u00a0<a title=\"notes \" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al-Nusra_Front\" target=\"_blank\">notes\u00a0<\/a>that al-Nusra:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026is\u00a0a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the United Nations,\u00a0Australia,\u00a0Canada, New Zealand,\u00a0Russia,\u00a0the United Kingdom,\u00a0the United States,\u00a0and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026is generally made up of native Syrian mujahideen who adhere to Sunni Islam.\u00a0Its goal is to overthrow Bashar al-Assad\u2019s government in Syria and create an Islamic Emirate under Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the group have referred to the United States and Israel as enemies of Islam,\u00a0and warned against Western intervention in Syria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>al-Nusra is\u00a0also, according to both the United States government and ISIS itself, affiliated with ISIS, formerly\u00a0known as AQI \u2013 al Qaeda in Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Council on Foreign Relations\u00a0<a title=\"notes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/iraq\/islamic-state-iraq-syria\/p14811\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Considering Openly Arming Syrian al-Qaeda Faction, al-Nusra As reported at\u00a0Antiwar.com, the US and some of its regional client dictatorships are prodding\u00a0the major al-Qaeda faction operating in Syria, a brutal terrorist group called al-Nusra, to \u201cre-brand\u201d so the US can openly arm it. Wikipedia\u00a0notes\u00a0that al-Nusra: \u2026is\u00a0a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria\u2026 \u2026has been designated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,3932,1319,35,1239,446,447,776,827],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-nusra","tag-armaments","tag-assad","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6222,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}