Proxy wars: could the US end up supporting al-Qaeda-like groups in Syria?

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ahmed-e-souaiaia/proxy-wars-could-us-end-up-supporting-al-qaeda-like-groups-in-syria

Syrian state-controlled media blames most of the deaths on armed groups (which it calls terrorists). These allegations have awakened Russia’s dormant–but not forgotten–memory of the Saudi-American alliance that created the Mujahidin networks in Afghanistan, which in turn defeated the Soviet Union.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ahmed-e-souaiaia/proxy-wars-could-us-end-up-supporting-al-qaeda-like-groups-in-syria