Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The Presence Of Foreign Fighters In Syria Is Raising Concerns


Inside Syria: Alex Marquardt Reports On His Run-In With Foreign Fighters In Syria On “ABC World News” -- ABC News

While covering the rebellion in Syria last week, ABC’s Alexander Marquardt reported on a new threat inside the embattled country. In his report Monday night on “World News with Diane Sawyer,” Marquardt cites a “much more ominous presence” in Syria, one that has many in Washington worried – “foreign fighters, mostly religious fundamentalists, streaming in – taking up the fight. They want Assad to go and Syria to become an Islamic state. We headed out to find some of them, instead… they found us. They were heavily armed so we hid our camera.”

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My Comment:
Talk about poetic justice. Assad either supported or turned a blind eye to foreign fighters streaming into Iraq from Syria to fight against US forces .... and now these same foreign fighters are going into Syria to fight against his government.

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