USA-backed terrorists in Syria give the USA a big fat finger .....

and other news all on Syria.

There goes another country to the more rabid dogs of the cult  and it's all happening because those we have elected to power, used that power to make it happen.  All indications point to Syria becoming another stronghold, along with Libya, for Muslim extremism.  

The most important news today is what's coming  from the hundreds of terrorists groups in Syria.  The strongest groups, and all of them are "top grade" terrorists have given the West a big fat finger. This tells me like nothing else does that Saudi Arabia has taken matters in its own hands and now the jihadi army in Syria is being controlled by  SA with advisers from Turkey and other interested regions around Syria.  

From Reuters:
....Thousands of Syrian rebels have broken with the Western-backed coalition and called for a new Islamist front, undermining international efforts to build up a pro-Western military force to replace President Bashar al-Assad.
Ever more divided on a battlefield where Assad's better armed troops have been gaining ground, allies of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were among 13 disparate rebel factions to disown the exile leadership and build an Islamic alliance that includes the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, commanders said on Tuesday........

From BBC
Eleven Islamist rebel groups in Syria have announced they do not recognise the authority of the main opposition alliance, the National Coalition.
A joint statement says: "All groups formed abroad without having returned to the country do not represent us."
They also call for the opposition to unite under an "Islamic framework". ............

From BBC;
....The Syrian children stood at the side of the road just after first light, just as they were told.
At this ragged cluster of tents in the Bekaa Valley, they weren't waiting for a school bus in the early morning cold.
An open back truck arrives just after 06:00 to take them to the fields to help bring in the harvest.
Across this fertile land of eastern Lebanon, Syria's refugee children are increasingly doing the jobs of adult manual labourers.
"It's a worrying phenomenon we see increasing by the day." Unicef's regional director Maria Calivis told me. "The numbers of refugees are growing larger, and the people arriving are more destitute than ever."....

From Observer:
From Syria, On Spec: Wary of Staff in Harm’s Way, Editors Leave War Coverage to $70 Stringers.......
.........“There are like 50 young freelancers who went from Egypt to Libya to Bahrain and then to Syria, and we all did this loop covering the revolutions, and it was probably the best career move for all of us,” Ms. Day said. “Because how many people get to get out of college now and become foreign correspondents?”....

From Al-Monitor:
This is my third visit to Aleppo in the last year,  but the first time that I saw fear in the eyes of my Syrian activist friends accompanying me. They are not afraid of Bashar al-Assad's regime or of bombs or of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Rather, what scares them are the checkpoints manned by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS — also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), the main al-Qaeda force in Syria. Kidnappings and executions have been steadily increasing.....
....According to Wassim, however, the real problem is not al-Qaeda, but the ever-widening rift with the FSA. An activist living in Aleppo, Wassim explained, “When the revolution started, we used to sing ‘One, one, one. The Syrian people are one.’ Nowadays, the most popular song goes like this: ‘Alawites wait for us! We are coming to slaughter you! We will cut your throats.’ The activists abroad will tell you that it is not true, that we are a moderate people and sectarianism will not prevail. But this is true only of us civilians, not for those who fight.
“Well half of the fighters in the FSA believe they are fighting a war against the Alawites, and more generally against the Shiites, as a result of Bashar’s alliances with Iran and Hezbollah. They are simple young men, from the poorer classes. They have no education, and the weapons have gone to their heads. They have become cruel. Killing has become ordinary. They only want their enemy’s blood. We took to the streets for freedom and dignity, not to substitute the regime with another regime just as bloodthirsty.”..........

From IndependentUK:
...Gas missiles 'were not sold to Syria' Export papers seem to back Assad's denial over sarin attack – but Russians won't go into detail.  While the Assad regime in Damascus has denied responsibility for the sarin gas missiles that killed around 1,400 Syrians in the suburb of Ghouta on 21 August, information is now circulating in the city that Russia's new "evidence" about the attack includes the dates of export of the specific rockets used and – more importantly – the countries to which they were originally sold. They were apparently manufactured in the Soviet Union in 1967 and sold by Moscow to three Arab countries, Yemen, Egypt and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. These details cannot be verified in documents, and Vladimir Putin has not revealed the reasons why he told Barack Obama that he knows Assad's army did not fire the sarin missiles; but if the information is correct – and it is believed to have come from Moscow – Russia did not sell this particular batch of chemical munitions to Syria.
Since Gaddafi's fall in 2011, vast quantities of his abandoned Soviet-made arms have fallen into the hands of rebel groups and al-Qa'ida-affiliated insurgents. Many were later found in Mali, some in Algeria and a vast amount in Sinai. The Syrians have long claimed that a substantial amount of Soviet-made weaponry has made its way from Libya into the hands of rebels in the country's civil war with the help of Qatar – which supported the Libyan rebels against Gaddafi and now pays for arms shipments to Syrian insurgents..........



From TodaysZaman:
...NATO expects Turkey to exercise greater restraint on Syria.
.....A Turkish F-16 jet fighter shot down the Syrian Mi-17 helicopter on Sept. 16 after it ventured up to 2 kilometers (1 mile) into Turkey near the border town of Yayladağı. The Turkish military said in a statement that the Syrian helicopter was repeatedly warned by Turkish air defense elements about air space violation before it was shut down.....

From StateofGlobe:
....UN leader Ban Ki-moon  on Wednesday pressed the major powers to overcome differences on the Syria war amid troubled talks on a UN Security Council resolution on Syria's chemical arms.
Ban hosted a lunch with the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- the permanent Security Council members -- to put across his message, UN officials said.
Ban has said the Security Council -- divided into opponents and backers of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad -- has been gripped by an "embarrassing paralysis" over the 30-month-old conflict........

From DailyStar:
...A French Muslim convert  has been killed fighting the Syrian army in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.
"Abu Mohammad al-Faransi, a Frenchman who converted to Islam, was killed while fighting against regime forces on Sunday in the south of Aleppo province," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Thousands of foreigners, mostly Arabs, have joined rebels seeking to bring down President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
France's interior minister revealed on Thursday that hundreds of homegrown Islamist militants were signing up to fight in Syria and warned that they could pose a security threat when they return home.
More than 300 French nationals or residents are currently fighting in Syria's civil war, planning to go or have recently returned, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said last week.....