Pakistani Taliban Set Up Camp in Syria, Join Anti-Assad War

[Zenreon]

[url="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/14/us-pakistan-syria-taliban-idUSBRE96D02V20130714"]Reuters[/url]

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[quote](Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have set up camps and sent hundreds of men to Syria to fight alongside rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, militants said on Sunday, in a strategy aimed at cementing ties with al Qaeda's central leadership.
More than two years since the start of the anti-Assad rebellion, Syria has become a magnet for foreign Sunni fighters who have flocked to the Middle Eastern nation to join what they see as a holy war against Shi'ite oppressors.

Operating alongside militant groups such as the al Nusra Front, described by the United States as a branch of al Qaeda, they mainly come from nearby countries such as Libya and Tunisia riven by similar conflict as a result of the Arab Spring.

On Sunday, Taliban commanders in Pakistan said they had also decided to join the cause, saying hundreds of fighters had gone to Syria to fight alongside their "Mujahedeen friends".

"When our brothers needed our help, we sent hundreds of fighters along with our Arab friends," one senior commander told Reuters, adding that the group would soon issue videos of what he described as their victories in Syria.[/quote]

Yay! More foreign factions!

[EmperorScorpious]

As if they're doing well in their own region.

[Paul McCartney]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;41475908]As if they're doing well in their own region.[/QUOTE]

I guess a lack of drones is a welcome change.

[SKEEA]

Oh man, this can only end very badly.

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=SKEEA;41475940]Oh man, this can only end very badly.[/QUOTE]

For the Taliban

[Fulcrum]

The west: "We know you've been using chemical weapons and all that but here have some guns"

[C47]

This will probably set the US's decision on Syria, the FSA failed at controlling their rebellion and it got out of hand. Assad will stay in power.