What, really, could be more bizarre than this: as the United States ramps up its aid to Syria’s rag-tag rebels, whose backbone is comprised of radical Islamists and Sunni fundamentalists, some with ties to Al Qaeda, the CIA is busily engaged in combat inside Iraq with the very same radical Islamists and Sunni fundamentalists, some with ties to Al Qaeda.
Yep, that’s right.
We’re backing the same guys in Syria that we’re fighting in Iraq.
Of course, we shouldn’t be involved in Iraq in any way, shape or form, but try telling that to the CIA.According to the Wall Street Journal:
Read More: http://www.thenation.com/blog/173318/cia-takes-opposite-sides-syria-and-iraq#The Central Intelligence Agency is ramping up support to elite Iraqi antiterrorism units to better fight al Qaeda affiliates, amid alarm in Washington about spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria, according to US officials.The stepped-up mission expands a covert US presence on the edges of the two-year-old Syrian conflict, at a time of American concerns about the growing power of extremists in the Syrian rebellion.
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