"You have the Islamic State of Iraq, that's launching most of the attacks, now operating on both sides of the border"

"... "You have (Al Qaeda )the Islamic State of Iraq, that's launching most of the attacks, now operating on both sides of the border and getting stronger and stronger in Syria," Cockburn, a veteran Iraq reporter for Britain's The Independent, told DW.
"It has bases in eastern Syria right over to the Mediterranean (into Lebanon),  so that has made the organization much stronger - given it strength and depth," Cockburn said. "It has access to arms depots that it's captured in Syria."