CIA deputy director: More foreign fighters are pouring into Syria
The Central Intelligence Agency 's second-in-command that there are now more foreign fighters from the West pouring into Syria to fight alongside al-Qaeda affiliated groups.
■ Speaking to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Michael Morell warned that the violence in Syria was likely to spill across borders into Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. The CIA Deputy Director doubted the U.S. administration's plans to arm the "Syrian opposition" fighters who include al-Qaeda-affiliated members. Morell considered that the crisis in Syria is "probably the most important issue in the world today" and that it is also now poses "the greatest threat to U.S. national Security". [BS!]
■ Meanwhile, a United Nations report said the crisis in Syria has seen the emergence of a strong al-Qaida presence drawing from al-Qaida in Iraq attracting hundreds of recruits from outside Syria. The al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra constitutes along with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham the core of backbone of the armed terrorist groups that are shedding the Syrians' blood. Despite the fact that the US has put Jabhat al-Nusra on its list of terrorist organizations, the US is still offering all forms of support, including arms, to the terrorist groups.