Richard Z. Chesnoff - Syria's charade: America's 'ally' promoting terrorism


Nod to IsraPundit for the pointer. Nice article as a primer for what's been happening with UN Security Council member Syria.

Ten of the worst Palestinian extremist groups remain headquartered in Damascus and receive regular Syrian government backing and funds. These include the military wing of Hamas, the leading Islamic terrorist organization in Gaza and the West Bank; Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, whose guerilla camps south of Damascus are used to train terrorists from a mixed bag of Palestinian terrorist organizations that include the Al Aqsa Brigades, the terrorist branch of Yasser Arafat's Al Fatah, and Islamic Jihad, one of the primary fundamentalist gangs behind the recent rash of Palestinian suicide bombings and attacks on Israeli civilians.