Ashgabat: No Turkmen Fighting in Syria
They must have been quite thorough to have given him four different nationalities of trainer.
"Gazakov said that he travelled from Turkmenistan to Istanbul and then to borders with Syria where in an al-Qaeda camp he was trained on how to professionally make bombs by trainers from the former Soviet Union, Europe, Jordan and Qatar."

Slightly more lunatic version, but shows how the same arguments are deployed for other conflicts.
"In Bosnia the Bill Clinton administration gave the go ahead for international terrorists, covert security agencies, Iran and many other forces to unite together, in order to massacre Orthodox Christians in the name of democracy. "
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