Al-Qaeda Now A US Ally In Syria By Joseph Wakim
While we reflect on the 11th anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks on American soil, there is a blinding light that may obscure our view: this sworn enemy now fights hand in hand with the US against the Syrian regime.The historic State of the Union address by US president George W. Bush on September 20, 2001 is loaded with morals and principles about good and evil.The president's ultimatum was clear: either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.In Syria, there is mounting evidence that Al Qaeda and its allies are actively deploying terror tactics and suicide bombers to overthrow the Assad regime.Syrian citizens who prefer the secular and stable state to the prospect of an Iraqi-style sectarian state may well be turning this same question around to the US government: are you with us, or with the terrorists?This week, head of the Salafi jihad and close ally of al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf, pledged ''deadly attacks'' against Syria as ''our fighters are coming to get you'' because ''crimes'' by the regime ''prompts us to jihad''.Bush referred to al Qaeda as the enemies of freedom: ''the terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews''. But Sheikh Muhammad al Zughbey proclaimed that ''your jihad against this infidel criminal and his people is a religious duty … Alawites are more infidel than the Jews and Christians''. Because the new jihad targets Alawites rather than Jews and Christians, does this render them better bed fellows?By his own admission, Bush stated that al Qaeda was ''linked to many other organisations in different countries … They are recruited from their own nations … where they are trained in the tactics of terror … They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around the world to plot evil and destruction''.Yet this is precisely how the foreign jihadists in Syria have been described by reporters. They are funded and armed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. And they collaborate with the Free Syrian Army which is aided and abetted by the US.Bush condemned the Taliban regime because they were ''sponsoring and sheltering and supplying terrorists. By aiding and abetting murder, the Taliban regime is committing murder''. Eleven years later, the parallels produce an uncomfortable truth.If only the Syrian uprising was as simple as the Arab Spring narrative where citizens seek democracy and freedom. But those unarmed protests have long since been hijacked by a cocktail of agendas which have little to do with Syrian democracy, and more to do with a proxy war to create a sectarian Sunni state that weakens Shi'te Iran's main partner in the region.Bush was correct in claiming that al Qaeda ''want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan'' - who were all US-Israel allies at that time.But his list stopped short of mentioning Syria or Iraq, the real targets of al Qaeda. Why does overthrowing Syria, using the same terror tactics, fail to attract the same degree of outrage?Bush continues: ''We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism.''This pledge appears to have fallen on its own sword, given the funding of the jihadists in Syria. The terrorists have bred and spread across borders, which is the opposite of Bush's prophecy.The US administration must come clean about its financial aid. It cannot use one hand to sign a blank cheque to the rebels, and the other hand to cover its eyes to their immoral and illegal tactics. It cannot hide behind ''the end justifies the means'' as there are too many innocent lives at stake.Bush rode off on his high horse: ''We are in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them … may God grant us wisdom''.If the principles and morality are to be taken seriously, then they need to be applied consistently.The US regime should be actively and publicly distancing itself from the foreign terrorists and Salafist jihadists that are proliferating within sovereign Syria.It should be condemning al Qaeda for its militant intervention. It should be condemning the Saudi sheikhs who issue fatwas for an Alawite holocaust.The wisdom that we see is grief over the al Qaeda crime 11 years ago, yet covert collaboration with this sworn enemy today.Perhaps the US is applying another principle that they may have learned from their pragmatic Arab allies - the enemy of my enemy is my friend

[ED NOTES:THEY HAD COVERT COLLABORATION WITH THEM SINCE ITS INCEPTION..ALQAEDA IS NOTHING MORE THEN TERRORISTS TRAINED BY WESTERN GOVT'S AND THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OF ITS PUPPET MONARCHIES IN M.E. ,THIS IS WHY MANY ALQAEDA SPOKESPERSONS ARE ACTUALLY JEWS* TIED TO WESTERN ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONS.THIS IS ALSO WHY MANY HAVE BEEN ON CIA MI6 PAYROLLS FOR YEARS...US JOINING WITH ALQAEDA IN SYRIA ISNT A NEW ALLIANCE,ALQAEDA IS THE ABOVE MENTIONED FRONTS.. A "Palestinian Terrorist" Wearing the Star of David   smh.com.au - Palestinians arrest al-Qaeda 'poseurs' Adam Yahiye Gadahn: The Fake Terrorist official FBI wanted poster for terrorist Adam Yahiye Gadahn  Adam Pearlmen is his REAL name! Adam is the grandson of the late Carl K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County. Carl was also a member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which was caught spying on Americans for Israel in 1993, much as AIPAC has been caught up in the more recent spy scandal. We have MI5 (British CIA) posing as Alqueda. "Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1050175,00.htmlWe have israel posing as alqueda in the phillipines. http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV2004061411759.html British operatives, arrested by Basra police and later freed by a British military operation, were identified by the BBC as "members of the SAS elite special forces" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/424614.stm Vinnell bombing leader Khaled Jehani, fought for the CIA in Afghanistan, Bosnia & Chechnya Members of the Moroccan terror group Salafi Jihadi fought for the CIA in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Bosnia and Kosovo USS Cole Bomber Jamal al-Badawi fought for the CIA in Bosnia Zacarias Moussaoui fought for the CIA in Chechnya Khalid Sheikh Mohammed fought for the CIA in Afghanistan Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman fought for the CIA in Afghanistan Head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman al Zawahiri, fought for the CIA in Bosnia His brother Ayman al-Zawahiri fought for the CIA in Kosovo Abdullah Azzam, "one of the ideological founders of Hamas" fought for the CIA in Afghanistan