...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....
snuffies is "in the hands of" the
Talal Sello "gave himself up" to Syrian opposition fighters -- which
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
calls the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) -- on Wednesday, according to
Sello was then taken to the southern
The fate of the burly Sello -- who became a prominent face due to his media updates during the SDF's fight with jihadists for Raqa -- has been shrouded in mystery since it emerged this week that he had left the force.
Mohammad al-Abdallah, of the Syrian rebel group Forqat al-Hamz, speaking to AFP in Beirut, described Sello's move as a "defection."
But the SDF denied he had defected, saying it believed Sello was taken "as a result of a special operation by
The SDF added that Sello "received threats against his children who are in Turkey."
The SDF includes Arab forces but is dominated by Syrian Kurdish fighters from the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG). Sello is of Turkmen origin.
Ankara views the YPG as a terror group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has been waging an insurgency inside Turkey since 1984. It has dismissed the SDF has merely a front for the YPG.
The PKK is blacklisted as a "terrorist" organization by Ankara, the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...While Washington views the YPG as the most effective fighting force on the ground against Islamic State jihadists in Syria, Ankara has railed against the American support.
The Kurdish-led force expelled IS from its de facto capital Raqa in northern Syria last month, one of a series of defeats against the group.
Turkey has cautioned against the creation of a "terror corridor" in northern Syria and had repeatedly warned it could launch an operation against the militia in the YPG-controlled town of Afrin.
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said on Friday that Afrin "needs to be cleared of the YPG terror group."
According to Hurriyet, Sello answered questions from
Crucially, he was also asked about what kind of preparations the YPG was making in the event of an attack by the
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) confirmed that Sello was in the hands of