One U.S.-Backed Rebel Group
Cooperates With Al-Qaeda in SyriaThis is what happens when journalists rely on government officials for their stories. If al-Nusra got control of the weapons pipeline through Jordan, there wouldn't be any pipeline. This is scaremongering to keep the rebel forces in Syria from being supported, much like the people who whinge about the Gulf Co-operation Council and the threat of al-Qaida, while ignoring the real threats that Syrians face.
' "Naimeh's arrest signals that Nusra feels emboldened in the south," said a Western official in Istanbul monitoring the Syrian civil war. "Nusra may be wanting to assert its dominance in the south by controlling the support pipeline from Jordan" to the FSA, this official added.'