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17 years after 9/11, Al-Qaeda rebranded by US government & media as besieged rebels

Published time: 11 Sep, 2018 19:04 Edited time: 12 Sep, 2018 11:40

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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) members at a camp in the countryside of the northern Idlib province on August 14, 2018. © Omar Haj Kadour / AFP

Seventeen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US government and media outlets have decided that Al-Qaeda is now a rebel group worthy of our sympathy. The cynical narrative change is par for the course, experts told RT.

As somber newspaper headlines mark the anniversary of the devastating attacks, some commentators have pointed out that the terrorist group accused of murdering 3,000 Americans seventeen years ago is now occupying northwestern Syria – with the US threatening to take military action if the "rebels" are evicted from the region by the Syrian army and its allies.