US Army Vet and Syrian Rebel With Possible Links To CIA Found DeadBrandon Turbeville With deep sorrow, we regret to inform you of our beloved Eric Harrouns death. He will be missed by his family, friends, and many people around the world his life has touched, the familys statement read. Although an official cause of death has not been released, Harrouns sister posted a statement claiming that Harroun died as the result of an accidental overdose. Harroun was arrested last year by the FBI for his association with known terrorist group and al-Qaeda affiliate Jobhat al-Nusra. Yet the case eventually saw Harroun a free man with only three years of parole as a penalty since, according to ABC news, the government confused Harrouns affiliation with al-Nasr with the al-Nusra Front. Thus, ABC News claims that Harroun was affiliated with a death squad organization that was not fighting for jihad with al-Qaeda. Harroun was therefore only convicted of failing to obtain an export license. Even the New York Times has been forced to admit that the entirety of the Syrian opposition is made up of extremists. In April, 2013, for instance, Ben Hubbard wrote that Harroun himself confessed to shooting 10 people, downing a Syrian chopper, and firing a rocket-propelled grenade during his tenure in the country with the death squads. He was also charged with plotting to use a weapon of mass destruction outside the U.S. However, Harroun, while allegedly a convert to Islam, may have served a much different role than that of mere jihadist. After Harrouns arrest, it is notable that his father, Darryl Harroun stated I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there. I know for a fact that he was passing information onto the CIA. Even Robert Young Pelton, a writer and war adventurer who was friends with Harroun, admits that Harroun had fed tips to the CIA and FBI for years. Still, while Americans are harassed over paying for coffee with cash, attending protests, or even possessing a pair of socks in the vicinity of a protest, Eric Harroun was free to travel across the world, engage in combat against sovereign governments and innocent civilians, re-enter the United States, and even continue to receive disability payments in the process. As Paul Joseph Watson wrote in March of last year, Regardless of whether or not Harroun was working for the CIA, he was nevertheless facilitating and supporting their goals and mission in Syria despite his individual level of knowledge regarding those goals. Recently by Brandon Turbeville: Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelors Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense Solutionsand Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria.Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. 