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Kobani Battle Could Lead Islamic State Back To Al-Qaeda
[IsraelTimes] Al-Qaeda is using US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches to the renegade Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group, saying the two should stop feuding and join forces to attack Western targets -- a reunification that intelligence analysts say would allow al-Qaeda to capitalize on the younger group's ruthless advance across the region.

Analysts are closely watching al-Qaeda's repeated overtures, and while a full reconciliation is not expected soon -- if ever -- there is evidence the two groups have curtailed their infighting and are cooperating on the Syrian battlefield, according to activists on the ground, US officials and experts who monitor jihadi messages.
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-30
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=403056