[THEGLOBEANDMAIL] Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria has no plans to attack the West but warns that they might retaliate if The Syrian known as Abu Muhammed al-Golani, who heads the Nusra Front, said the aim of his group is to march to the Syrian capital Damascus and bring down Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's government. Al-Golani denied that the so-called Khorasan group even exists.
Since September when the U.S. led coalition began targeting 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....
group in Syria, U.S.
Al-Golani said in an interview with the Al-Jazeera
... 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...
TV aired Wednesday night that "there is nothing called Khorasan group. We heard this from the Americans only."
He added that if the coalition's
Al-Golani said that the directions they have received from al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri are "not to use Syria for attacks against the West and Europe."
"The directions that we are received from Dr. Ayman, may God protect him, are that the Nusra Front aim is to bring down the regime and its allies, I mean Hezbollah," al-Golani, whose face was not shown during the interview, said.
He added that the "directions we have received until now is not to target the west and America." He said al-Qaeda might be doing so but not the Nusra Front.
The Nusra Front, one of Syria's strongest groups, is leading the so-called Fatah Army that consists seven Syria-based factions. The Fatah Army has defeated Assad's forces in northwestern Syria over the past two months capturing wide areas of the northwestern province of Idlib, including the picturesque provincial capital that carries the same name.