Rival Group Accuses Qaida of Betraying Jihadist Cause
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A powerful rival organization has accused Al-Qaida leaders of betraying the jihadist cause, in the latest widening of divisions rooted in Syria's civil war.
"Al-Qaida today is no longer a base of jihad (holy war)," Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said in a statement posted on jihadist forums.
"Its leadership has become a hammer to break the project of the Islamic State," Adnani said, adding that "the leaders of Al-Qaida have deviated from the correct path."
"They have divided the ranks of the mujahideen (holy warriors) in every place," he said.
Powerful rebel groups in Syria, including Al-Qaida's designated affiliate Al-Nusra Front, have been locked in fierce fighting with ISIL since January that has killed thousands of fighters.
ISIL was initially welcomed by other rebels, who have been fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad since 2011, but allegations of brutal abuses against civilians as well as rival opposition fighters sparked a backlash.
Some critics of ISIL have gone so far as to accuse it of serving the interests of Assad's regime by splitting rebel ranks and tarnishing the image of the uprising in the West.
Both Al-Nusra and ISIL have roots in Al-Qaida's onetime Iraqi affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq.
But the two have never merged, with Al-Nusra's leader rejecting a union proposed by ISIL, and Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urging ISIL to return to Iraq after its fighters moved into Syria.
18 April 2014, 13:39
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Yes Mystic.One must agree with you.There was never a revolution.Hamza el khatib was a 12 years old boy who belonged to Al Nusra.
18 April 2014, 14:07
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Syria is for the Syrians, their war is theirs alone, so those who got in should bear their own responsibilities. No one forced them to go in the first place, so when the consequences start to happen, let them blame no one but themselves.
18 April 2014, 14:36
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Fanatical lunatics fighting it out and destroying a country that is not theirs to start with. In the middle of all the madness are the innocent civilians who are caught up in it all watching their homes become rubble and their future destroyed. The Syrian people prior to all of this were clearly not happy and rather than try to crush them the regime should have been listened, reform should have been implemented and transition to a true democracy should have been agreed. I see no winners in this tragic war. Only the loss of life and hope. I pray for peace and may God protect all the innocent.
19 April 2014, 07:41
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A person who wanted to do this would not continue to shoot at demonstrator and arrest them and torture them - many to death.
18 April 2014, 14:55
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No revolution???! what the hell you call all those people demonstrating against the tyrant ASSad back in 2011... OH ya right! it was all foreigners and extremest ... Because back then ASSad was in control of all the Boarders into Syria, his men were then in a frantic frenzy to let all those foreigners IN... Oh wait... NO No!? ... OK then, hundreds of thousands of men woman and children Crossed in from Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon and Turkey... RIIIGHT... i should of guessed Mr. Mystic!
DEATH to your Shytan Worshipers and fighters... Hizbshytan... the true Zionist's Friend.
18 April 2014, 14:57
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Geha and sunni cedar... are you getting a fight with Iceman and Popeye?
18 April 2014, 14:59
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Mystic - grow up and get a real life and stop living in a make belief world. You support a regime that is, according to all credible human rights organizations, by far the worst purpotrator of crimes in Syria. ISIL is a distant second and the rest of the revolutionaries combined are distant third.
18 April 2014, 18:58
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Let FSA-Al Qaeda and all the other jihadist terrorist groups destroy each other.
18 April 2014, 19:13
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"Assad did not chose this," LOL not only did he choose it but encouraged it... how could he justify his massacres of his own people? the bombings of villages?
he encouraged islamic fanatism even liberated some islamists and let them so he could then talk of a conspiracy to do what pleased him...
he only cares about saving his throne even if it means put his country into ruins... LOL
learn your history! the assad regime is an expert into putting up a fire then come as the firefighter to extinguish it to appear like the brave regime! he did that sooooo many times in lebanon!
18 April 2014, 20:47
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Bigjohn. Don't open Pandora's box. Pals are not welcome in Lebanon. They have no business being in nahr el bared, while aleppoans were in their city. Pals tried to kick Christians out of lebanon . They started our civil war. A lot are terrorists. If they are poor let them stop breeding and reproducing like rabbits.The lebanese army tried to diminish civilian casualties, and tried the best with what means it has. Assad has no qalms about killing civilians. U are wayyyyy ooff base.
18 April 2014, 22:21
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"La Syrie est un pays terroriste. La liste des assassinats commandités au Liban est longue. La France le sait bien puisqu'elle y a perdu un ambassadeur et un attaché militaire. Depuis trente ans, tous ceux qui s'opposent à la présence syrienne au Liban sont éliminés. La Syrie est un pompier pyromane !"
http://www.tayyar.org/tayyar/articles.php?article_id=52&type=GMA
i guess then aoun was wrong! LOL and you say syria only put out fires? LOL
18 April 2014, 22:21
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La Syrie est responsable du massacre de milliers de civils libanais et de la destruction de nombreux villages dans le nord du Liban. Elle a bombarde le pays sans relache et s'est livree a des assassinats contre des deputes, des journalistes, des hommes politiques. La Syrie a toujours ete une force de nuisance. Quelqu'un doit mettre un terme a son jeu d'influence regionale nefaste. ""
michel aoun 13/11/2003 le figaro
i guess aoun was a takfiri too! LOL
so it is really funny that now when one says the exact same things aoun used to repeat is called a takfiri or terrorist! but aoun is a great patriot! LOL go figure how retarded M8ers minds are....
18 April 2014, 22:24
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in a nutshell crusher boy: aoun repeated many times that the syrian regime must be stopped and changed... but now those saying the same things are called takfiris, saudis or terrorists!
would you call aoun the same? LOL
see where the propaganda lies? LOL
19 April 2014, 01:33
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Why wasn't there a "revolution" during Syria's hegemony over Lebanon and while raping its resources?
19 April 2014, 07:36
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Crusher is simply a liar. According to all credible Human Right organizations, the overwhelming majority of crimes in Syria are committed by the regime, followed by a distance by ISIL. The revolutionaries are fighting both monsters. As for the Houla massacre, it was committed by the regime and not by the opposition as he claims (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-19273284)
19 April 2014, 07:39
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Big john - During Nahr Al Bared, At least 446 people, including 168 soldiers and 226 militants, had been killed in the fighting during the 105-day siege of the camp. 54 civilians were killed in the fighting at the camp and in Tripoli, 47 of them Palestinians. That is one Syrian regime barrel bombing raid.
19 April 2014, 07:43
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As long as you do not criticize the regime, you are safe. If you do, then arrest, beatings, torture, imprisonment, disappearance, your family is abused and slow death.
19 April 2014, 07:46
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ISIL hardly fought the regime. It was the Nusra that did. When ISIL forced a split from Nusra, it busied itself fighting the rebels. It is why cities controlled by ISIL are some of the safest in Syria from regime bombings.
