I will at times alternate the spelling of Al-Nusra as with the "h" as Al-Nusrah because both spellings are used by the Corporate Media.
Global Research – Canada, claims that
al-Nusra was formed in Qatar as an alliance started by the United States Central Intelligence Agency with members of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-qatar-and-the-creation-of-syrias-jabhat-al-nusra/5335453The article is worth the read.
The U.S. Department of State labels Al-Nusra as enemies of the United States who formerly warred with us in the recent war in Iraq.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/12/201759.htmTerrorist Designations of the al-Nusrah Front as an Alias for al-Qa'ida in Iraq
Press Statement
Victoria Nuland
Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
December 11, 2012
The Department of State has amended the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 designations of al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI) to include the following new aliases: al-Nusrah Front, Jabhat al-Nusrah, Jabhet al-Nusra, The Victory Front, and Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant. The Department of State previously designated AQI as an FTO under the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under E.O. 13224 on October 15, 2004. The consequences of adding al-Nusrah Front as a new alias for AQI include a prohibition against knowingly providing, or attempting or conspiring to provide, material support or resources to, or engaging in transactions with, al-Nusrah Front, and the freezing of all property and interests in property of the organization that are in the United States, or come within the United States or the control of U.S. persons.
Since November 2011, al-Nusrah Front has claimed nearly 600 attacks – ranging from more than 40 suicide attacks to small arms and improvised explosive device operations – in major city centers including Damascus, Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr. During these attacks numerous innocent Syrians have been killed. Through these attacks, al-Nusrah has sought to portray itself as part of the legitimate Syrian opposition while it is, in fact, an attempt by AQI to hijack the struggles of the Syrian people for its own malign purposes. AQI emir Abu Du’a is in control of both AQI and al-Nusrah. Abu Du’a was designated by the State Department under E.O. 13224 on October 3, 2011, and by the United Nations under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 on October 5, 2011. Abu Du’a also issues strategic guidance to al-Nusrah’s emir, Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, and tasked him to begin operations in Syria.
….Al Nusrah is simply the Al Qaeda of Iraq, which fought and killed many hundreds of United States Military in Iraq, reconstituted by the Obama Administration with the help of the nations of Qatar and Saudi Arabia and once in Syria, materially supported - aided - comforted by Obama. The use of "Freedom Fighter" by the Obama Administration in a broad designation that includes Al-Nusrah means they fight Freedom and FOR oppression. It is the employment of misinformation semantics to dupe the Corporate Media and the general public to think in themes of how they have been trained to think, rather than in what the reality and literal interpretation is or optional definition also is.
It is especially important that the public know that
Al Nusrah IS Al Qaeda as far as the United States is concerned,
and despite being labeled as a terrorist organization by the Obama Administration in December of 2012, they have and are receiving material aid and support from the Obama Administration in 2013. Material support that is now including hundreds of military-only highest-grade bullet resistant vests, because they are on the front-lines of this war, and that material support of those who the United States Department of State labels as terrorists cannot be denied.
The UK Telegraph notes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9898541/US-set-to-send-direct-aid-to-Syrian-rebels-says-John-Kerry.htmlon February 27, 2013, that the Obama Administration willingly admitted:
“We are examining and developing ways to accelerate the transition the Syrian people seek and deserve,” Mr Kerry said in Paris, after meeting Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister.And that the giving of
$60,000,000 in body armor and night vision would knowingly end up with al-Nusra, because, as even the Free Syria Army said:
“… [T]he Jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra group was gaining the upper hand in the revolution.”“The Americans are now more open to the idea of arming the revolution,” said Louay al-Mokdad, a spokesman for the rebel army.The New York Times Reports that the Obama Administration KNOWS it is supporting Al Qaeda of Iraq in the form of Al-Nusra, and that those at the Department of State were whining to the effect that U.S. Aid by the Obama Administration to Al-Nusra, even that of food rations and medical supplies, was making Al-Nusra, and not the United States, make public relations inroads with some of the Syrian populace.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/world/middleeast/us-pledges-60-million-to-syrian-opposition.html?_r=0
“The food rations and medical supplies that Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday would be provided to the Free Syrian Army mark the first time that the United States has publicly committed itself to sending nonlethal aid to the armed factions that are battling President Bashar al-Assad.
…American officials have become increasingly concerned that the Nusra Front is making inroads among the Syrian population by dispersing assistance in the areas it controls.”On April 13, 2013, USA Today (among others) reported that
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-04-13/syria-un-annan/54258456/1
“Washington had been providing satellite phones, SIM cards and other such equipment already, officials acknowledged, but said the level of assistance will now be increased.”Has Obama supplied material support in the form of bullet proof vests or body armor, night vision, food, medical supplies, communications equipment to Al Qaeda in Syria under the name of Al Nusrah, a group that its own State Department labeled as enemies of the United States? Most definitely...YES!!!