It´s about the only muslim country of consequence in the region that said nutcases have refrained from destabilizing or destroying altogether.
Don't forget Bahrain too. Not that it's heard from in the news. But americans need their naval bases there. Doesn't matter if the population is oppressed, tortured or killed. As it was in the arab spring. All with saudi and american help. As long as the dictators obey the west they can do whatever they want.
They sure can.
Now; it probably hasn´t been much in the news in the west but Syria´s Assad has in fact repeatedly warned over the last years that this dangerous western playing footsies with terrorists might boomerang on them. It has happened before so it was no big prophecy. Now those screwballs play dumb as usual.
It´s a very familiar feature; intelligence agencies know the eventual "masterminds" of these terrorist operations and are tracking them, yet somehow aren´t able to prevent the attacks. How often have you seen that play out? In this case French intelligence knew that the guy had gone to Syria but say they missed that he came back.
I mean, come on, this shit goes in one ear of people and straight out the other. It´s amazing. Of course when people are on an emotional porn binge all critical thinking goes out the window, if they´re even capable of that to begin with.
