American Thinker
by Rick Moran
January 6, 2014

The Iraqi government is pleading with its citizens in Fallujah to help them expel a force of al-Qaeda fighters who have taken control of large parts of the city. Sunni tribesmen opposed to the terrorists are assisting the army in a military operation to kick AQ out of western Iraq.

But the problem for Iraq - and Lebanon, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East - is that AQ is on the rise everywhere. Recruits have bee filling its ranks to help this AQ offshoot, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, overthrow President Assad in next door Syria. For a while, the ISIS were allies with the American backed Free Syrian Army.

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