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Jihadist civil war on the horizon as Jund and Ahrar battle in Idlib
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hours ago, reports emerged from rebel sources talking about festivities between Ahrar al-Sham...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... and Jund al-Aqsa (Qaeda franchise) in the town of Ariha, a few kilometers to the west of Idlib. According to the same source, festivities began following an liquidation attempt by Jund al-Aqsa turbans against the vice leader of the Ahrar al-Sham movement. In addition, a Jund al-Aqsa jacket wallah targeted an Ahrar-held HQ in the city of Binnish at the heart of Idlib. Those events come at a sensitive time when Jund al-Aqsa, FSA-affiliated Jaish al-Nasr, Jabhat Fath al-Sham, and Ahrar are fiercely battling the government forces north of Hama. Notably, Ahrar al-Sham was mobilizing against Jund al-Aqsa in the Ghab plains prior to the southwest Aleppo offensive that was initiated around a month ago. Jund al-Aqsa have been amply accused of hoarding ISIS sleeper cells and indulging in a trade with ISIS in eastern Hama. Adding merit to the accusations, Jund al-Aqsa have always refused to fight against 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... terror group on the side of their Islamist comrades. It remains unknown whether the aforementioned festivities will continue to escalate or whether they will result in mass-scale civil war that ends with the expulsion of the Jund al-Aqsa terror group in a similar manner to ISIS’s expulsion from the jihadist-held Idlib province in the 2014 festivities. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-05 |
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