Impending Al Qaeda air strike being welcomed by jihadists

Long War Journal

Jordanian jihadists welcome proposed US intervention in Syria

Although a few jihadist groups have released statements expressing apprehension about the proposed US military strikes on Syria, others appear to be taking a more sanguine view.

Two days ago, the London-based Arab news outlet Al-Quds Al-Arabi published an article citing Musa al Abdalat, a leading spokesman for Jordanian jihadists, in which he said that Jordanian Salafists support the proposed strike as it would involve “oppressors strik[ing] oppressors.” According to the SITE Intelligence Group, which obtained and translated the article, Abdalat said: “We do not ask for military strike but we do not mind because we do not mind alleviating harm done to Muslim men and women. If the strike occurs we do not object to it.”

The news outlet also reported that Jordanian Salafists do not disapprove of strikes against members of the Syrian military, despite the jihadists’ call that no Muslim blood be shed, because the Syrian soldiers are identified with an apostate regime so are not considered true Muslims, SITE said.

Jordanian Salafist support for jihad in Syria

Jordanian Salafists have been instrumental in the development of jihadist forces in Syria. In May, Jordanian Salafist leader Mohammad Shalabi, also known as Abu Sayyaf, told Agence France Presse that there were currently more than 500 Jordanian jihadists in Syria, and that 50 had already been killed there. Many of them are believed to be fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Al Nusrah Front, two al Qaeda affiliates in Syria.

Attack both sides or do nothing.

Wait,  if we do that one of those sides will have no targets but concrete block buildings with a bunch of monkey bars. and apartments in Aleppo or somewhere or other with wires, and cellphones and homemade plastique, right?

We are UNABLE to affect things in any way that can benefit the security of the people of the USA, or even our allies.

And this morning we hear we have already changes the attack plan 50 times? That’s about 3 times a day? Adding targets? Trying to track VX in a truck(s)? Or we can’t make up our minds?

If the Israelis COULD obliterate Assad’s chemical warfare delivery equipment, and supplies, or knew where they all were distributed, is there anyone who thinks they would still exist?