"But he offered a warning to the West now commonly heard among fighters seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad:
The Syrian people are being radicalized by a combination of a grinding
conflict and their belief that they have been abandoned by a watching
world.
If the West continues to turn its back on Syria’s suffering, he said,
Syrians will turn their backs in return, and this may imperil Western
interests and security at one of the crossroads of the Middle East." So those folks are very moderate and secular and are friends of the West--whatever that means--but they will become fans of Bin Laden if the US does not intervene on their behalf in Syria. Is this a paid advertisement?