Al Qaeda Building Main Base in Syria. Do you miss George Bush yet?

Washington Free Beacon   "Al Qaeda is constructing its main regional base in areas of Syria where Bashar al-Assad’s regime has lost control, according to Mosaic magazine.

"The group will export terrorism and radical Islam throughout the region and then to the West, according to a report from an Israeli security research institute.

The report identified the Al Nusra Front as Al Qaeda’s official arm in Syria; they added that the organization is quickly entrenching itself in the north and east of Syria, where the Assad regime’s rule has collapsed. […]

Qaeda in Syria wants to dominate Iraq, Turkey border zones    "Jihadists have even sought to justify the strategy on Internet forums by accusing Western-backed groups, including Ahfad al-Rasul and the Northern Storm brigade, of acting like the US-funded "Sahwa" who fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq."