"Sorry, I thought it was common knowledge that Al Qaeda are operating in Syria with the same aim to topple the regime.
http://rt.com/news/us...da-syria-otrakji-635/
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It would help your case if you quoted more reliable sources than rt.com, which most reasonable people would acknowledge is merely a mouthpiece for a government which is shamelessly propping up Assad. And moreover using the same argument which it was, ironically, using to beat the UK over the head with some months ago: i.e. that for some years the UK government placated Gaddafi by shopping Libyan dissidents, on the dubious pretext that they were Al Qaeda members or of that ilk.
The other night I watched this so-called "news" channel try to justify their government's policy: the inference was that better women and children die at the hands of Russian-made tanks and artillery than that God forbid we should let Al Qaeda in. It was pretty sickening, if not, to be honest, surprising.