... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
television interview to be aired Thursday.
"We will not recognize any results that come out of the Geneva 2 conference," Al-Jazeera's website quoted Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, the head of Al-Nusra Front, as saying.
He was referring to a conference set to begin January 22 in Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
, bringing together representatives of the Damascus government and the opposition, as well as countries taking opposite sides in the war.
Geneva 2, a follow-up to a 2012 meeting, will aim to map out a political transition to end nearly three years of fighting that has killed more than 126,000 people and displaced millions.
In an apparent reference to the opposition Syrian National Coalition, he said "those taking part in the conference do not represent the people who sacrificed.
"Besides, who has authorized them to represent the people?"
The man whose group Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-
Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
named as the official branch of the network in Syria dismissed opposition representatives slated to attend as those who "have no presence on the ground."
Jawlani also said the battle against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
is almost over, claiming that the rebels "will achieve victory soon."
In what is billed as Jawlani's first television interview, Al-Jazeera said the man asked that his face not be shown.
Correspondent Tayseer Allouni, who conducted the interview, said the security checks he went through were stricter than those carried out before he met now-deceased Al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...
in 2001.
Al-Nusra, formed in January 2012, joined Al-Qaeda last December on a U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations.
It and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are the most powerful jihadist groups fighting against Assad.