This entire "I know who is going to down buildings with planes before even the President of the United States knows," is wearing thin. There are more groups of so called terrorists in Syria than Carter has little liver pills and quite frankly I don't believe Syria's military exists anymore. If they do then they are more stupid than the American people when it comes to war. There is no sense to being part of Assad's army. There are options that are less dangerous.
September 18, 2014
The battlefield in Syria's civil war (click here) is carved up among several large groups ostensibly trying to oust President Bashar Assad, but spending a great deal of time instead fighting each other for territorial gains.
September 18, 2014
The battlefield in Syria's civil war (click here) is carved up among several large groups ostensibly trying to oust President Bashar Assad, but spending a great deal of time instead fighting each other for territorial gains.
That focus on their immediate surroundings has thus far, according to most U.S. officials, helped to mitigate the threat posed by groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the U.S. homeland.
There has been significant and mounting concern that Western recruits drawn into the war -- who have proven all but impossible to monitor on Syrian soil -- could use their passports to sneak back into the U.S. or Europe and stage attacks.
Now, however, a previously unheard of subgroup within the complicated jihadist web that is the Syrian opposition is lending new urgency to that concern by combining the threat of Western imports with the threat of advanced bomb-making....