Yet Another U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Makes Peace with ISIS

All Sunnis are supporting ISIS in their fight to bring down Assad.Turkey, Saudi Arabia and QATAR are supporting them too. They may even want to reestablish Sunni dominance in Iraq and Lebanon too. Anything to curtail Iranian influence. That’s why the US can’t find allies. She wants the Sunnis to fight Sunnis.  Of coarse SA is worried that the monster they have created will ultimately attack them too. SA has made it clear she sees the MB as an enemy.  So does Egypt. America’s best course of action is to back the Kurds and the Jews. Ted Belman

By Patrick Poole, PJ MEDIA

Obama’s hope to do anything of substance in Syria took another severe blow yesterday as the U.S.-backed and armed Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF) struck a peace deal with ISIS, according to both Arabic and English language news reports.

The SRF had only a few months ago been deemed by the U.S. foreign policy establishment as “the West’s best fighting chance against Syria’s Islamist armies.”

Now AFP reports:

Syrian rebels and jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have agreed a non-aggression pact for the first time in a suburb of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group said on Friday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the ceasefire deal was agreed between ISIS and moderate and Islamist rebels in Hajar al-Aswad, south of the capital.

Under the deal, “the two parties will respect a truce until a final solution is found and they promise not to attack each other because they consider the principal enemy to be the Nussayri regime.”

Nussayri is a pejorative term for the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs.

According to media reports, other groups joining the ceasefire with ISIS include Liwa Ahrar Turkman al-Golan, Liwa Hittin and Liwa al-Umma al-Wahida.

When seeking U.S. heavy weapons, including TOW anti-tank missiles, SRF commander Jamal Maroof was full of bravado,declaring war against ISIS. In May, McClatchy reported that SRF and other “vetted moderate rebel” groups had received TOW missiles from the U.S. and posted videos of their use.

But as soon as weapons were being delivered to Maroof’s SRF forces, he was giving interviews to Western media making clear that “al-Qaeda is not our problem.”

During that interview where Maroof talks about receiving U.S. military aid and his soldiers receiving U.S. training, there is one curious artifact in the background, as you’ll see in the photo on the next page.

The SRF’s ceasefire with ISIS puts yet another nail in the coffin of the claims by the U.S. foreign policy establishment that there are “vetted moderate” Syrian “rebels” that we can rely upon.

As I’ve reported here at PJ Media over the past week, the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army is operating openly with ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, the official al-Qaeda affiliate, in certain areas. I also noted an L.A. Times article last Sunday where a reporter traveling with fighters from the U.S.-backed and armed Harakat al-Hazm, one of the first groups to receive U.S. heavy weapons, was told that the group fights alongside Jabhat al-Nusra. And earlier this week I reported on a statement by a Free Syrian Army commander admitting his group is in an alliance with ISIS fighting near the border with Lebanon.

As Congress takes up a bill to fund Obama’s plan to arm and train so-called “vetted moderate” Syrian “rebels,” even some analysts are beginning to admit that finding the right allies in Syria will be difficult. With the State Department’s disastrous record so far of identifying “vetted moderate rebel” groups who refuse to ally with al-Qaeda and ISIS, and ISIS leaders openly bragging about the U.S. arming and training rebels groups that have now defected to ISIS, some prudent caution on the part of Congress is in order before throwing more money and weapons into Syria and Iraq.

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  1. All Sunnis are supporting ISIS in their fight to bring down Assad.Turkey, Saudi Arabia and QATAR are supporting them too. They may even want to reestablish Sunni dominance in Iraq and Lebanon too. Anything to curtail Iranian influence.

    Exactly and I have said this for ages, the different Sunni groups are funded and controlled by the same GCC and Turkey. ISIS accomplishes exactly what they all wanted, but they could not be seen to be supporting such terror tactics overtly. hence they distanced themselves from “terror” for months before the appearance of ISIS. I believe that in the end ISIS will fade and be replaced by more “moderate” leaders, that ISIS is a vehicle, a tool, for putting the western alliance in a position to negotiate an overall new spheres of influence in Lebanon, syria and Iraq. If Iran does not come to a deal I continue to predict as before a next phase of the internal destabilization of Iran from azeris, baluchis and Kurds with the external support of the sunni jihadis and Kurds who are already tying up Irans proxies as I predicted a couple of years ago when the Jihadis started massing in syria and did NOT attack Israel. the firs reports of the negotiated new order:

    Report: Iran and Hezbollah questioning unwavering support for Assad
    http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Iran-and-Hezbollah-questioning-unwavering-support-for-Assad-375300

    Ted says:

    Of coarse SA is worried that the monster they have created will ultimately attack them too. SA has made it clear she sees the MB as an enemy.

    I have always said this is a false front, the saudis are behind ISIS, and the current image presented of being separate was cultivated over the last few months in advance, and in expectation, of the ISIS blitzkrieg.
    What is saudis part in the new “anti ISIS” coalition?
    To train moderate syrian rebels!!! 😛 😛 😛

    That’s why the US can’t find allies. She wants the Sunnis to fight Sunnis.

    On the contrary, the allies are Saudi, Jordan, Lebanon…. players already in support of the sunni GCC war on Irans proxies. Obama has actually provided the cover and fig leaf for the consolidation of sunni gains in syria and Iraq, now there is only a need to preserve a status quo and negotiate. I would not take ONE SHRED of the political rhetoric as a guide as to what is really going on.
    Ted, remember I have always been saying that the saudi/Qatar split is another false front, watch this morphing to see Qatar return to the fold while still retaining its resistance credentials with the MB:

    Qatar Expels Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leaders
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185067#.VBWiu_ldWSo

    I think that the best model is that there is, and always has been in this “arab spring”, a western/ GCC alliance with turkey,Egypt,Kurds and Israel on the fringes of this alliance. The sunni jihadis of all stripes are supported by this alliance overtly or covertly…on the other side are Russia, Iran and Irans proxies.

    There is lots and smoke and mirrors, pretending at deviations from this basic agenda, but I think the smoke will clear to show that these are the real sides. IMO, ISIS is a red herring, a baathist and saudi controlled operation with CIA support. Everything they do has helped the Western/GCC agenda to have leverage in any remaking of Syria and Iraq. I would not be surprised to see Assad reduce his holding in Syria, at least defacto with russian and Iranian assent, possibly even with cash from GCC too under the table.
    Without ISIS there would be no western leverage in Iraq, Syria or Lebanon.