Why 'Obama's Syrian rebels' you might ask... he recognized them as being 'legitimate' and has probably involved in the covert supplying (and perhaps more) of them... in short, he built that (not you). As was readily predicted on this very Board and yet, no much, by the cadres of the so-called USIC, akin to their failure regarding the outcome of throwing Mubarak under the wheels of the bus, we are starting to see the first glimpses of what Obama's Syrian rebels (including his al Nusra Front) are doing when it comes to the Alawites (it should not be a surprise to anyone with even a modicum of understanding of the historical animosity between Shi'a and Sunni Muslims and with the specificity of the Syrian context tossed in as well).

Mystery continues to surround the fate of scores of people, mostly members of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Alawite Muslim sect, said to have been trapped and possibly killed this week in the town of Aqrab. The incident comes as a number of disturbing videos emerging from rebel-held areas of Syria seem to show Sunni Muslim rebels committing sectarian attacks, in one case torching a Shiite Muslim mosque in northern Idlib province.

Britain’s Channel 4 News managed this week to reach the outskirts of Aqrab. Its version of events implicates the rebels.

The Channel 4 report quotes witnesses as saying the rebels entered Aqrab on Dec. 2 and "corralled around 500 Alawite civilians in a large red-colored, two-story house," according to a blog by Alex Thomson, the Channel 4 correspondent at the scene. The rebels sought to use the Alawite women and children as "human shields" to prevent government bombardment of a nearby rebel-held town, Channel 4 reported, citing witness statements. Channel 4 recounted that negotiations to release the prisoners faltered and on Monday rebels opened fire on the building where they were being held. According to the Channel 4 report, which aired Friday, about 70 prisoners escaped Tuesday but many people remained trapped in the building the day of the broadcast. Their fate could not be determined, the report said.
Good job Obama! If there is a foreign policy steaming excrement mass from the caudal terminus of the alimentary canal of a bovine, your administration just goes head first, directly into it. There is no mistake of history that the current administration is not willing to repeat.