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| Syria Qaeda chief warns West against continued strikes |
| 2014-09-29 |
| The head of Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate warned on Sunday that failure to stop US-led air strikes on militant positions in Syria would “transfer the battle” to Western countries. In an audio message posted on the Internet, Abu Mohammad Al Jolani, who heads Al Nusra Front in Syria, addressed citizens “in America and Europe” and called on them to stand against their governments. “Your leaders will not pay the price for the war alone, you will pay the higher price,” Jolani warned, in his first speech since the coalition launched strikes on Syria earlier this week. The United States initially launched strikes in Iraq on August 8 against positions of the ISIS group, and then widened its campaign with a coalition of partners last Tuesday to include Syria, where ISIS has its headquarters. The coalition has carried out daily air strikes since Tuesday against ISIS and Al Nusra Front in Syria. Failure to stop these strikes “will transfer the battle to your very homes,” Jolani said. Jolani did not elaborate. But he said: “People of America and Europe, what have you gained from your war against Muslims and jihadists except tragedies and pain brought on your countries and children?” Jolani’s warning comes a day after a spokesman of the same group also threatened reprisals against nations participating in air strikes, denouncing them as “a war against Islam”. Jolani, meanwhile, called on people rebel-held areas of Syria to stand by Al Nusra, describing the countries striking militant positions as a “new crusader alliance”. “People of Syria, stand against those who allied themselves with the crusader slaves,” he said, in reference to some rebel factions who have expressed support for the strikes. Jolani also addressed Sunnis in Lebanon, calling on them to defect from the army. Sunni extremists perceive Lebanon’s army as being controlled by the Shia movement Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters into Syria to support President Bashar Al Assad’s troops in a war that has killed more than 180,000 people in three years. “Sunnis, take your sons away from the army that serves your enemy, and make them join the ranks of the jihadists,” he said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 So, if we don't stop bombing them, they're going to refuse to be friends with us? (Tough call...) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-09-29 07:55 |
| #1 So basically the ISIS' new BFF = Frenemy? AL-NUSRA is threatening to attack the US-West iff the majorily US-led, anti-ISIS etal. airstrikes in Syria don't cease. I'm interpreting this as a indirect threat to attack POTUS Bammer andor his Admin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-09-29 01:29 |