ISIS Cell Behind West Europe Attacks Predates Caliphate
▻http://news.antiwar.com/2016/03/24/isis-cell-behind-west-europe-attacks-predates-caliphate
There is so much hype surrounding the ongoing US war against ISIS that it’s easy to forget that just a few years ago, the US administration was largely ambivalent toward the group as a whole, and many people were openly praising the Europeans who went to Syria to fight against Assad as freedom fighters.
The Financial Times ▻http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/98f2e504-f1d4-11e5-9f20-c3a047354386.html is reporting that’s where the cell blamed for both the Brussels and Paris attacks came from, and indeed that many of the attackers themselves went to Syria to join Islamist factions before ISIS had more than a token presence, back when the US involvement in Syria was exclusively backing rebel blocs.