Syrian Rebels’ Pledge Of Allegiance To al Qaeda Complicates Western Intervention Strategies
The West is floundering over how to respond to Syria’s worsening civil war, especially after a leading Islamist rebel group pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, opposition officials and experts say.
The move by the Al-Nusra Front this week has complicated efforts by US and European officials to come up with unified strategy to support the rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
After pushing for weeks to lift a European embargo so arms could be supplied to the rebels, France and Britain have recently backed away from the initiative amid fears weapons could fall into the wrong hands.
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“There will never be any guarantees of where the arms will end up. And there will never be a total lifting of the European embargo,” he said.
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