Russia still seethes over the way it was "hoodwinked" last year into agreeing at the U.N. on humanitarian intervention in Libya, only to see NATO's "Operation UnifiedProtector" morph into regime change.
And as long as there attacks on this Shiite Islamist group operating through Interior Ministry, for example, against Sunni Arabs as a community, the insurgents will remain unified, as a protector, of course.