{"id":187804,"date":"2015-10-01T22:15:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/should-us-ally-with-al-qaeda-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T22:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:15:01","slug":"should-us-ally-with-al-qaeda-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/should-us-ally-with-al-qaeda-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Should US Ally with Al Qaeda in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exclusive:<\/strong> The new U.S. \u201cgroup think\u201d is that Russian President Putin broke his promise to attack only the Islamic State when his warplanes hit other rebel targets in Syria. But Putin never limited which terrorists he\u2019d hit and the targeted rebel coalition includes Al Qaeda\u2019s\u00a0affiliate,\u00a0as Robert Parry reports.<\/p>\n

By Robert Parry<\/p>\n

The key sentence in The New York Times\u2019 lead article<\/u><\/a> about Russian airstrikes against Syrian rebel targets fell to the bottom of the story, five paragraphs from the end, where the Times noted in passing that the area north of Homs where the attacks occurred had been the site of an offensive by a coalition \u201cincluding Nusra Front.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the Times didn\u2019t say in that context was that Nusra Front is Al Qaeda\u2019s affiliate in Syria, an omission perhaps explained because this additional information would disrupt the righteous tone of the article, accusing Russia of bad faith in attacking rebel groups other than the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

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