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Al-Qaida Abducts US-Backed Rebels in Northern Syria
[NYTIMES] The leader of a U.S.-backed rebel group and several of his men have been kidnapped in northern Syria by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, the rebel group and opposition activists said Thursday.
Maybe they need to add a week or two to the Escape & Evasion part.
A statement issued in the name of the group, "Division 30," accused the Nusra Front of abducting Col. Nadim al-Hassan and several other members of the group in the northern Aleppo countryside. It called for their immediate release "to avoid bloodshed between Moslems."

There was no official comment from the Nusra Front, which has in the past moved against rebel groups backed by the United States. Last year, the krazed killer group routed the U.S.-backed Harakat Hazm rebel group and the Syria Revolutionary Front from their main northern strongholds in the Idlib province, dealing a blow to U.S. efforts to arm and train Syrian rebels.

The kidnapping, which occurred Wednesday night, came a few days after the U.S. and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 announced the outlines of a deal to help rebels push IS back from a strip of territory it controls along the Syrian-Turkish border, replacing it with more moderate rebels backed by Washington and Ankara.

A representative of "Division 30" said reports that the group was Western-backed were likely the reason behind the kidnapping. He declined to say whether his group was among those trained by the U.S., saying only: "The Division supports any side that helps Syria and the Syrians against Daesh." The representative spoke on condition of anonymity for security considerations. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the 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....
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Posted by: Fred 2015-07-31
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