Posted on 09/26/2014 8:25:21 AM PDT by Viennacon
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria is facing mounting pressure from its members to form an ultra-alliance with the rival Islamic State to confront a common enemy after U.S.-led air strikes hit both groups this week.
Al Nusra, long one of the most effective forces fighting Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, was weakened this year by battles with Islamic State, an Al Qaeda splinter group that routinely employs ruthless methods such as beheadings and mass executions.
U.S.-led air and missile strikes, which have hit Al Nusra as well as Islamic State bases in Syria, have angered many Al Nusra members who say the West and its allies have joined forces in a 'crusader' campaign against Islam.
Even before the air strikes, Nusra was facing difficulties and was losing fighters to the Islamic State, which is seen as more organised and determined to impose Islamic rule.
'This goes without saying, this is a crusader war that includes all infidel nations against the Islamic State,' said Nusra commander Abu Mussab al-Makdessi in a voice message posted in jihadi forums online in response to a question from an Islamist about the group's reaction to the strikes.
'Regardless of what happened between us, they remain our brothers, and the ideological bond between us is stronger than anything. We are ready to fight by their side ... our blood is their blood.'
One former Nusra fighter inside Syria said the air strikes had strengthened Islamic State's position even further.
'Nusra is in a very difficult situation. I think now it should just announce the end of itself. Zawahri has to be brave,' he told Reuters.
'It is no longer like the old days. He needs to understand this. This is a new era with a caliph,' he said.
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"This is the new era with the caliph" he said
It certainly is. Obama has DESTROYED American foreign policy, and will bring a reign of terror and destruction down upon the heads of Americans overseas and eventually at home. All the while our military will be bleeding to death out of their urine stracts in West Africa if they aren't hacked up as 'witches' by suspicious villagers first.
When in God's name will a general declare a state of emergency and place Obola under arrest!
I'm sure Obama believes this, too.
The plan is a JOKE! Somebody tell me this isn’t happening. I must be dreaming. All the brave soldiers who DIED, it was all for nothing. Damn you Saul Alinsky!
remind me again which “moderates” our incompetent cowardly
“we gotta do something” Congress just authorized obama and our muslim CIA chief brennan to arm and train
Whichever ones Juan McInsane tell them to
The disparate groups of radicals in the Mideast see this as their opportunity to come together and do the greatest amount of damage...
...just as the left in United States has seized on the Obama Caliphate as their chance to wreck America.
. . . and one tiny nuke would vaporize the lot of ‘em.
I keep forgetting because the names of the players keep switching sides — who are the “good guy” fighters against the evil IS or ISIS or ISIL or whatever that Barry wants to arm and give money? To say Barry’s foreign policy is effed up is an understatement of epic proportions.
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