American readers are not told that the Obama administration in the negotiations in Vienna has lobbied for excluding Ahrar Ash-Sham (Al-Qa`idah linked) and Zahran Alloush's Islamic Army from the terrorist list and called for their classification as legitimate and acceptable opposition groups. Kid you not. If only the US government knows how much closer to Al-Qa`idah and its affiliates the Obama administration has been inching (from Yemen to Syria and elsewhere).