Posted on 05/01/2018 2:15:17 PM PDT by markomalley
Turkey is expected to give an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as the al-Rahman Corps the police command of the Afrin region in Syria along with authority to impose Sharia, or strict Islamic laws, on the residents, which include members of the persecuted Yazidi and Christian minorities, a monitor group revealed over the weekend.
Ankara has also been resettling hundreds of jihadists linked to al-Rahman and their families from the Eastern Ghouta region in houses owned by the displaced residents of Afrin, formerly controlled by the Kurds, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a group that monitors the conflict using a network of sources on the ground, warned, once again emphasizing the move on Sunday.
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So unsuspected....NOT! Well, at least this will cheer up Juan McCain.
like nobody saw that comin
Turkey has been supporting the jihadis in Syria all along. An ISIS-like Sharia-governed end state has been what they have been pursuing all along - complete with enslavement and sectarian cleansing of Christians, Yazidis and Shi’ites.
Obama/Hillary laundered weapons to the rebels (really ISIS) through Turkey. Coincidence?
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