Wahhabis on the March

Reuters is reporting this morning a massacre of Shiites in the rebel-held Syrian town of Hatla:

A video posted online by rebels on Tuesday, entitled "The storming and cleansing of Hatla" showed dozens of gunmen carrying black Islamist flags celebrating and firing guns in the streets of a small town as smoke curled above several buildings.

Rick Gladstone has a story this morning, "U.S. Blacklists Fund-Raisers for Hezbollah," about the Treasury Department sanctioning four Hezbollah fundraisers who operate out of Africa:

The Treasury said that the four, identified as Ali Ibrahim al-Watfa, Abbas Loutfe Fawaz, Ali Ahmad Chehade and Hicham Nmer Khanafer, had “organized fund-raising efforts, recruited members, and in some cases styled themselves as ambassadors of Hezbollah’s Foreign Relations Department.” 

David S. Cohen, the Treasury under secretary in charge of administering sanctions, rejected Hezbollah’s depiction of itself as a resistance organization, noting that three of Europe’s biggest countries — Britain, Germany and France — now support an effort within the European Union to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist group. Such a change could hurt Hezbollah’s fund-raising in Europe.

The Gulf Cooperation Council, that league of Arab monarchies, also announced yesterday its intention to sanction Hezbollah.

Gladstone provides an economical summary of yesterday's civil war news:

On Tuesday, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that rocket fire from Syria struck the Shiite border village of Hermel, in what appeared to be a rebel reprisal. In Syria’s capital, Damascus, two suicide bombers killed at least 14 people, which Syria’s state news agency, Sana, called a cowardly retaliation that illustrated “the bankruptcy of the armed terrorist groups and those who stand behind them.”

As Taliban suicide bombers rock Afghanistan, it's worth mentioning yet again that the West is working in concert to destabilize the Middle East with the same regressive Wahhabism that we have been purportedly locked in existential war since 9/11. Assad's characterization of the opposition as foreign-backed terrorists, scoffed at initially, is now impossible to deny.

And this is what Obama is going to wade into with heavy weapons? Madness.