Why Are Syrian ‘Moderates’ Wearing Al-Qaeda and Taliban Clothing?

by | Feb 6, 2014

Syrian Rebel

Thanks to PartisanGirl on Twitter for pointing out that a recent profile of the “moderate” Free Syria Army on the website of The Atlantic, lamenting the diappearance of “Syria’s non-violent activists” from social media, included a picture of featured “moderate” Syrian oppositionists dressed in al-Qaeda t-shirts and Taliban-style outfit.

So even the vaunted “moderates” to whom the US Congress just voted in secret to once again begin supplying weapons are dressed like Taliban and al-Qaeda. Are they just emulating their heroes or are they actually members of these groups? Is no one expected to notice? Is not the State Department and intelligence community paid in the billions to notice such things? Or are they lying to us too, as is the media? Should John McCain go investigate?

Author

  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.