US to send $60 million in aid to the Syrian rebels aka Muslim Brotherhood

I knew after the election we’d eventually start supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria in some form or another. After all, we deemed them legitimate and worthy of support just last year. And now we are sending them $60 million in aid which means it can be used to purchase almost anything, including weapons.

Just as a reminder of who makes up the Syria rebels trying to topple Assad:

CHICAGO TRIBUNE – Syrian rebel groups have chosen Brigadier Selim Idris, a former officer in President Bashar al-Assad’s army, to head their new Islamist-dominated military command, opposition sources said on Saturday.

The joint command named Islamist commanders Abdelbasset Tawil from the northern province of Idlib and Abdelqader Saleh from the adjacent province of Aleppo to serve as Idris’s deputies, the source said.

The unified command includes many with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and to Salafists, who follow a puritanical interpretation of Islam. It excludes the most senior officers who had defected from Assad’s military.

Its composition, estimated to be two-thirds from the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, reflects the growing strength of Islamist fighters on the ground and resembles that of the civilian opposition leadership coalition created under Western and Arab auspices in Qatar last month.


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