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Kuwait, a U.S. ally on Syria, is also the leading funder of extremist rebels




Kuwait, a U.S. ally whose aid to besieged Syrian civilians has been surpassed only by the United States this year, is also the leading source of funding for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists fighting in Syria’s civil war, according to Obama administration officials. The amount of money that has flowed from Kuwaiti individuals and through organized charities to Syrian rebel groups such as Jabhat al-Nusra totals in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to experts whose estimates are endorsed by the Treasury Department.

Funding al-Nusra and al-Qaeda are two completely different things.

Article dated in 2013. Since then, we've had an al-Nusra commander killed by members of the al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Sham. They are two distinct groups, fighting for different reasons and their interests are very, very loosely aligned but that is often clouded by their different strategic interests.

Not to mention the internal infighting which means you must really take any pledges of allegiance with a pinch of salt.

Article dated in 2013. Since then, we've had an al-Nusra commander killed by members of the al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Sham. They are two distinct groups, fighting for different reasons and their interests are very, very loosely aligned but that is often clouded by their different strategic interests.

Not to mention the internal infighting which means you must really take any pledges of allegiance with a pinch of salt.

All i know is, Al Nusra themselves have pledged allegience. Whether or not there was infighting between al-nusra and alqaeda allies that led to his death i don't know.

But the war in syria is a chaos, infighting between several groups.

It's just ironic a lot of the 'rebels' aren't even syrian.

I doubt America will be funding Nusra any time soon...

Your point?

Tell me about it. Hezbollah sure aren't Syrian.

I doubt America will be funding Nusra any time soon...

First of all, the Alqaeda backed groups have been infiltrating syria from the beggining. All Hezbollah are doing is making sure Syria does not fall into the hands of Alqaeda, because that will bring terror for all muslims and weaken the stability of the middle east even further.

I don't like Assad, i think he is indeed a dictator, but i don't want alqaeda or alqaeda backed tafkiri groups gaining power.

I want the muslims of Syria to use democracy and have free elections.

But i have a choice, the secular Assad, or the tafkiri alqaeda backed groups, who will i choose?

They'll leave that job to saudi arabia

Lol, do you actually think Al Qaeda are funded by Saudi? Saudi are allied with America so do intrigue me as to how that would work out?

They actually came in 2013 and before that it as a revolution. If Assad had stepped down, none of this would've happened. However, now that it has I ask Allah to give the Muslims power over Bashar and his allies.

Lol, do you actually think Al Qaeda are funded by Saudi? Saudi are allied with America so do intrigue me as to how that would work out?

Launder Saudi government money through a seemingly legitimate exercise, an apartment block being built in Dubai for instance, then funnel the profits from that to an 'investor' in another country, somewhere like Jordan or Egypt, who then diverts it into accounts controlled by AQ. Not saying it's actually happening, and the CIA would catch up with schemes if they were used for too long, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility to do it.

It is widely known alqaeda and their affiliates were part of this entire attack from the very very beginning. Assad is as much as a dictator as the saud , or the bahrain and co. All are dictators.

You need to be very careful who you are praying for - alqaeda backed groups who are killing syrians? Do you genuinly think tafkiri's and alqaeda affiliates will make syria a better place?

In Egypt, they over-threw the government of Mubarak without this sort of war. Why? Because the US and Saud didn't need to dislodge Syria into chaos, install an Iran/Lebanon hating government to isolate Iran.

There are many ways Assad would have been taken down by the will of the people and forced into democracy, but Alqaeda and their affiliates invaded from the get go.

The lesser of two evils is Assad, who i would prefer over Alqaeda anyday. The ideal? Muslims - not alqaeda, using democracy to vote.

People need to realize when Israel and the US have a common enemy, it can't be good.




Wikileaks: Saudis 'chief funders of al-Qaeda'

Private individuals in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states friendly to the United States are the chief source of funding for al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist groups, according to leaked US diplomatic cables.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8182847/Wikileaks-Saudis-chief-funders-of-al-Qaeda.html

I think we all know that there is not a good side to support in this war.

America would be doing more good to get rid of Assad AND the rebels and occupy the country, but of course it will never do that because it is against its ideology (which is good, really) and we've learnt pessimistic lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Go back to 2007 and America were fighting to take insurgents out of Fallujah. We're now in 2014 and they've regained Fallujah and are heading towards Baghdad.

I'm not particularly sure America would want to invade another country at the moment.