Posted on 06/16/2015 3:43:52 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Al Qaeda's Syria affiliate said on Saturday it would prosecute members involved in an shoot-out in northwest Idlib province that killed at least 20 members of the country's Druze minority.
In an official statement published on Twitter, Nusra Front sought to allay fears of further attacks on minorities, saying that some of its members acted "in clear violation of the leadership's views," reports AFP.
On Thursday, residents of the village of Qalb Lawzah protested after a Tunisian Nusra leader tried to seize a Druze man's home, accusing him of being loyal to the Syrian regime, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"The Tunisian leader gathered his men and accused the Druze residents of the village of blasphemy and opened fire on them killing at least 20 people, among them elderly people and at least one child," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
In its statement, Nusra said it had immediately dispatched a committee to Qalb Lawzah to "reassure the residents that what happened was unjustifiable."
"This village and its people are still safe under our protection and in areas under our control. Everyone who was involved in this incident will be referred to an Islamic court and will be held accountable," the jihadist group said.
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Apparently the warlord doesn’t want to pi$$ off the Druze
Useful information to somebody
are you saying you can’t trust Al Qaeda’s word? it’s as good as gold /s
So what’s the sharia penalty for killing an infidel? A whack on the pee pee and a promise not to do it again?
I can imagine balancing the alliances among various different factions in Syria must be a yeoman's job...
Piss off too many of particular sects and it tips the balance of the fighting...
Peepee? Why, of course not. Allah favors whacks on the wrists. It’s only an infidel, after all, and one that wears a funny hat, besides.
Note how when Bsh was in office Al qaedas affiliates were referred to as insurgents, and now they are back to the more accurate name...
It’s kinda funny...
Oh... you said, “DRooooze...”
My bad.
If anyone recalls the Lebanese Civil War of the 1980s, the Druze know how to fight back hard, unlike the Christians in Iraq.
Typical islam on world wide display!
Just witnessed the beginning of the end of Al Qaeda
They have 1.5m people and are very well organized, if their leaders call for it, they will fight.
They don’t believe in death, only reincarnation. Someone who is willing to die more willingly their your own is something scary.
Was there a MEME that I missed?
Patton said it best,
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
Kill ‘em twice if you have to!
Al Qaeda is trying to re-brand themselves as the "we're not as bad as ISIS" militant Islamic organization.
I'm not sure what angle they're trying to work here but it is well-known there is no love between these two groups.
Problem is, they can only play their “we’re the moderates, honest” card with Westerners present. Among fellow goat-humping death cultists, they are vying to be seen as the most extreme. If it gets taped, and MEMRI translates it, and the story gets legs, that’s the end of their game.
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