Posted on 12/08/2013 12:34:57 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The Islamic Front, a recently formed Islamist alliance of several large groups that cooperate with al Qaeda in Syria, has driven Free Syrian Army forces out of bases and a warehouse at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing into Turkey. Late last month, the warehouse and its FSA commanders were taken over by the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
Following an all-night battle between the Islamic Front and FSA units, today Islamic Front fighters seized FSA arms depots containing weapons that had come into Syria through Turkey, according to the activist Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
FSA spokesman Louay Meqdad said the Islamic Front fighters raised their own flag in place of the FSA's, after "asking" FSA personnel to leave, Reuters reported.
Agence France Presse notes that the capture of the FSA bases took place only four days after the Islamic Front declared that it rejected FSA command.
Last week, the Islamic Front, estimated at 45,000 fighters, published its charter, which sets out its goals of creating an Islamic state under sharia law. Although the charter does not mention al Qaeda or its two official Syrian branches, the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Islamic Front embraces jihad and calls the foreign fighters "our brothers." Taken as a whole, the charter indicates that the Islamic Front is willing to cooperate with both Al Nusrah and the ISIS; most of the Islamist groups that make up the Islamic Front have fought alongside the al Qaeda groups already. . .
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So are we to assume the Islamic Front has the full support of the sorority over at the State Department?
“sorority”
Excellent!
How about that the Turks let it happen?
The Islamic Front, a recently formed Islamist alliance of several large groups that cooperate with al Qaeda in Syria, has driven Free Syrian Army forces out of bases and a warehouse at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing into Turkey. Late last month, the warehouse and its FSA commanders were taken over by the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham... arms depots containing weapons that had come into Syria through Turkey... only four days after the Islamic Front declared that it rejected FSA command... most of the Islamist groups that make up the Islamic Front have fought alongside the al Qaeda groups already...
there fixed it
Sorry to read about more Christians being brutalized by these demons. But it’s good to see the AP is reporting it.
shocking to see the AP reporting it
I fully believe if you are Christian you must leave NOW
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