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Syria's SNC seeks protection from islamists against al Qaeda

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Syrian National Coalition logoSyria’s Western-backed opposition said on Thursday it had invited Islamist fighters to secure its depots on the Turkish frontier after an attack by al Qaeda militants.

The United States and Britain suspended non-lethal aid to northern Syria after reports that Islamic Front forces had taken buildings belonging to the coalition’s Syrian Military Council (SMC) in Bab al-Hawa on the border with Turkey.

But the opposition Syrian National Coalition said it had in fact asked the Islamic Front, a union of six major rebel groups, to defend the premises against fighters from the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Abu Talha, an Islamic Front leader, confirmed his fighters had been responding to the SMC’s plea for help. “In truth, the call came a bit late,” he told al Jazeera television.

“There was more than one case of theft or looting from the Command and unfortunately the Supreme Command doesn’t have the power yet to defend its weapons depots and its bases,” he said, referring to the SMC, which the West has tried to build up as the body in overall command of the campaign to topple Assad.

For months rebel leaders have discussed how to restructure the SMC into a more organized body. But with hundreds of brigades to be consulted, progress has been slow, with the Bab al-Hawa standoff a new hindrance, rebel sources said.

Reuters

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2 responses to “Syria's SNC seeks protection from islamists against al Qaeda”

  1. hezzies are terrorists Avatar
    hezzies are terrorists

    Seymour Hersh

    “it’s been more than a year of talk—is, the only solution for stability was Bashar. You have to just like it or don’t like it.
    Israel, which—don’t forget, Damascus is, what, 40 miles, 45 miles from
    the Golan Heights and 130 miles south of—north of—northeast of Tel Aviv,
    easily within range of any missiles. The Israelis are not going to
    tolerate a jihadist government inside Syria, or even any area that the
    jihadists will claim as an area of sharia law. They’ll hit it. The only
    potential for stability was to keep Bashar there”

    We can see why hersh wrote that poorly sourced article regarding the Sarin attack by the Syrian dictator.

  2. hezzies are terrorists Avatar
    hezzies are terrorists

    Seymour Hersh

    “it’s been more than a year of talk—is, the only solution for stability was Bashar. You have to just like it or don’t like it.
    Israel, which—don’t forget, Damascus is, what, 40 miles, 45 miles from
    the Golan Heights and 130 miles south of—north of—northeast of Tel Aviv,
    easily within range of any missiles. The Israelis are not going to
    tolerate a jihadist government inside Syria, or even any area that the
    jihadists will claim as an area of sharia law. They’ll hit it. The only
    potential for stability was to keep Bashar there”

    We can see why hersh wrote that poorly sourced article regarding the Sarin attack by the Syrian dictator.

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