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A former senior CIA intelligence officer claims that Al-Qaeda has never existed in the past, and does not exist today in any form.  Michael Scheuer was the CIA’s Chief of the ‘Bin Laden Issue Station’ and has gone on the record saying that the terrorist organisation blamed for the 9/11 attacks was a creation of the CIA. Collective-evolution.com reports: Below is a video of Michael Scheuer being interviewed by RT news. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer of 20 years. He is also an author, foreign policy critic, and a political analyst.

Two of the world’s largest terrorist groups who were once allies are now fighting for supremacy in Syria. Al Qaeda is heading to Syria to replace ISIS as the lesser of two evils. Raw Story reports: According to Ali Soufan, the CEO of strategic-security firm The Soufan Group, the brutal activities of ISIS — also known as ISIL — have led the Muslim world to view Al Qaeda more favorably. “What ISIS did made so many people in the Muslim world think, ‘Al Qaeda are the good guys.

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A small team of U.S. troops was on the ground in Yemen and Navy ships with Marines aboard were offshore to support friendly forces against an al-Qaeda offshoot as the U.S. deepened its involvement in yet another Mideast civil war, the Pentagon said Friday.

Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, declined to say how many U.S. troops were in Yemen near the port city of Mukalla, a former stronghold of the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula terror group, or whether they were Special Forces.

The US government has most likely acted to prevent the Syrian government’s armed forces from recapturing the city of Aleppo from the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front, according to Richard Black, US Senator for the State of Virginia On Friday, Black said: “It is clear to me that what is happening is we are trying desperately to slow down the Syrian army’s advance, which is on the verge of crushing al-Nusra and liberating Aleppo once and for all” al-Nusra Front Sputnik News reports: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicated that the United States was attempting to create a safe-zone