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| PYD: Syrian refugee tripped by Hungarian journalist was member of radical al-Nusra Front | |
| 2015-09-23 | |
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and fought the Kurds on many fronts in Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) said Saturday. The video footage of Osama Abdul Mohsen being kicked by a camerawoman on the Hungary-Serbia border went viral and prompted uproar around the world. Abdul Mohsen later landed in Spain where he was offered a job and welcomed by Real Madrid football club including famous footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the Kurdish group PYD alleged in its official media that Abdul Mohsen had fought alongside the Nusra Front before leaving Syria with his family in the spring of 2015. Furthermore, the PYD claimed that Abdul Mohsen was involved in the violent suppression of Kurdish riots in the city of Qamishlo in 2004 following a football match were more than 50 Kurds were killed by the Syrian security forces. Abdul Mohsen was the coach of al-Fatwa club in Deir Ez Zor from 2004-2010. The PYD said that he was an instigator behind the violence after the football match between al-Fatwa and Qamishlo's Jihad club. The PYD published a picture of Abdul Mohsen from his Facebook page before closing it down earlier this year where he identifies himself as a member of the Nusra Front, adding that he had fought the Kurds near Amudeh, Serekaniye and Afrin. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Rudaw is following the story, and has this update from Spain at 5:15 pm ET: Spanish football club: claims about tripped Syrian refugee are a âhoaxâ BARCELONA, Spain â Reports claiming that a Syrian refugee -- who shot to fame after he was tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman -- was a member of a radical Islamist group are a âhoax,â said the head of the Spanish football club that brought the asylum-seeker to Madrid and gave him a job. The denial came after the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria said earlier this week that Osama Abdul Mohsen, 52, had been a member of the radical al-Nusrah Front and had fought the Kurds on many fronts. The El Pais newspaper on Tuesday quoted Miguel Angel Galan, the director of the Madrid-based National Soccer Coach Training Center (Cenafe), as saying pictures that appeared on a Facebook account under the name Osama Abdul Mohsen are a âhoax.â âHe doesnât have a Facebook account,â Galan said. Cenafe has used money from its advertising budget to pay for an apartment in Getafe, a Madrid suburb, where Abdul Mohsen is staying with two of his children. His wife and two other children are still in Turkey, where the family had been for a year after escaping the war in Syria. Cenafe said that next week it would make efforts to bring the entire family to Spain. Here's hoping Cenafe is right about the gentleman and his family. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-09-23 17:34 |