Syrian Islamists kill FSA commander as struggle between moderates and radicals intensifies

[smurfy]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23283079[/url]
[quote]A senior rebel commander in Syria is reported to have been killed by rebels from a rival group linked to al-Qaeda.

Kamal Hamami, of the Free Syrian Army's (FSA) Supreme Military Council, was meeting members of the rival group "to discuss battle plans".

An FSA spokesman said he was told by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that they had killed Mr Hamami.

The killing is part of an escalating struggle within the armed uprising between moderates and Islamists.

The BBC's Paul Wood says a civil war within a civil war is building within the opposition as the two sides engage in a battle that is partly over the spoils and partly ideological.[/quote]

[JennyC6]

And people wonder why the west should just ignore the area entirely...

[xxMarathonxx]

And yet we still give them weapons!