12 February 2012

●Jake Sullivan to Clinton: "AQ is on our side in Syria"

Other regions#Syrian war #Jihadist groups #Foreign interventions & programmes

PartiesUnited StatesArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)Syria / Syrian Army

On 12 February 2012, after Ayman al-Zawahiri's call to support the gunmen against the Syrian regime and weeks after the Nusra Front's appearance, the State Department's director of policy planning Jake Sullivan wrote to Secretary Clinton, in a message later published among her emails: "AQ is on our side in Syria."

▲ Hillary Clinton: "the people we are fighting today, we funded twenty years ago"The MOC operations room in Amman coordinates the southern Syrian rebels ▼

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Hillary Clinton: "the people we are fighting today, we funded twenty years ago" (context)

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The MOC operations room in Amman coordinates the southern Syrian rebels (context)

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