Al-Qaida Wooing Syria's Rebels................from Dan Friedman

From the AP today:

“Al-Qaida chief al-Zawahri called on Muslims to support Syria's uprising, saying they cannot depend on the West for help. In a videotaped statement released late Saturday, he asked Muslims in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to join the uprising against Assad's ‘pernicious, cancerous regime.’ All four states border Syria.”

You know what this means? Any port in a storm. In the absence of a meaningful Western response to stop the Syrian regime’s atrocities, the country and its uprising may well be driven into Al-Qaida’s arms. - DF