Syria’s FSA vows to wipe out the al Qaeda linked group

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free syrian army fightersSyrian rebels said on Friday the assassination of one of their top commanders by al Qaeda-linked militants was tantamount to a declaration of war, opening a new front for the Western-backed fighters struggling against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

Rivalries have been growing between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Islamists, whose smaller but more effective forces control most of the rebel-held parts of northern Syria more than two years after pro-democracy protests became an uprising.

“We will not let them get away with it because they want to target us,” a senior FSA commander said on condition of anonymity after members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant killed Kamal Hamami on Thursday.

“We are going to wipe the floor with them,” he said.

Hamami, also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Bassir al-Ladkani, is one of the top 30 figures on the FSA’s Supreme Military Command.

His killing highlights how the West’s vision of a future, democratic Syria is unraveling.

Assad appeared close to defeat a year ago when rebels killed top officials in a bomb attack and pushed deep into Damascus. Now, with military and financial support from Russia and Iran, he has pushed the rebels back to the outskirts of the capital and put them on the defensive in the south while radical Islamists assert control over the north.

The FSA commander said the al Qaeda-linked militants had warned FSA rebels that there was “no place” for them where Hamami was killed in Latakia province, a northern rural region of Syria bordering Turkey where Islamist groups are powerful.

Other opposition sources said the killing followed a dispute between Hamami’s forces and the Islamic State over control of a strategic checkpoint in Latakia and would lead to fighting.

VACUUM OF POWER

The two sides have previously fought together from time to time, but the Western and Arab-backed FSA, desperate for greater firepower, has recently tried to distance itself to allay U.S. fears any arms it might supply could reach al Qaeda.

Louay Mekdad, FSA Supreme Command Political Coordinator, said Abu Ayman al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s Emir of the coastal region, personally shot dead Hamami and his brother at the roadblock.

He said a fighter who was travelling with them was set free to rely the message that the Islamic State considers the FSA heretics and that the Supreme Command is now an al Qaeda target.

“If these people came to defend the Syrian revolution and not help the Assad regime, then they have to hand over the killers,” Mekdad said, adding that the bodies of the two men were still with the al Qaeda affiliate.

The FSA has been trying to build a logistics network and reinforce its presence across Syria as the U.S. administration considers sending weapons, in part to present a bulwark against units it considers “terrorist organizations.”

But with funding from Gulf-based individuals, Islamist brigades have taken a leading role in rebel-held regions of Syria, filling the vacuum of power by setting up religious courts and governance bodies.

The FSA — a mixture of loosely-affiliated brigades — is accused by locals of looting and has not been able to present a unified front to sideline hardline units who favor an Islamic caliphate over pluralist democracy.

Some frustrated FSA fighters say they have joined Islamist groups and moderate and hardline fighters sometimes buy and sell weapons from each other.

The anti-Assad Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict, said the FSA and the Islamic State have had violent exchanges in several areas of Syria over the past few weeks, showing growing antagonism between Assad’s foes.

“Last Friday, the Islamic State killed an FSA rebel in Idlib province and cut his head off. There have been attacks in many provinces,” the Observatory’s leader Rami Abdelrahman said.

Syria’s conflict turned violent in the face of a crackdown on protests. Civil war ensued with disparate rebel groups taking up arms and the Observatory says more than 100,000 people have been killed.

U.S. congressional committees are holding up plans to arm the rebels because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and the arms might end up in the hands of Islamist militants.

Syria’s opposition bemoans the delay, and repeated on Thursday assurances that the arms will not go to Islamist militants.

Reuters

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59 responses to “Syria’s FSA vows to wipe out the al Qaeda linked group”

  1. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    This satanic Al-Qaeda will perish in Syria.

    1. AntiFSA Avatar

      On this one I agree with you wargame. I even gave you an arrow up. go figure

      1. The real lebanese Avatar
        The real lebanese

        I think every Lebanese agrees on this

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Assad loves it ….

    1. wargame1 Avatar
      wargame1

      I think most Lebanese may well aware of Bashar Al-Qaedas sponsoring of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during 2003. They know each other more than we do. A weird coincidence is Bashar Al-Qaeda was born in September 11, 1965 !

      1. man-o-war Avatar
        man-o-war

        I knew it! google ” Wired coincidence shocks Bashar Al Qaeda into 9/11 birther/truther NY tunnel ghostbusters live birth”

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Ah yes … a power-out …. :-)))

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Wired … hmmm …. I think you meant weird …. I hope. 😉

        1. wargame1 Avatar
          wargame1

          Thank you for the correction. Please watch that video about the Jewish Rabbi who is playing Al-Qaeda

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Assad loves it ….

    1. wargame1 Avatar
      wargame1

      I think most Lebanese may well aware of Bashar Al-Qaedas sponsoring of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during 2003. They know each other more than we do.

      1. man-o-war Avatar
        man-o-war

        I knew it! google ” Wired coincidence shocks Bashar Al Qaeda into 9/11 birther/truther NY tunnel ghostbusters live birth”

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Ah yes … a power-out …. :-)))

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Wired … hmmm …. I think you meant weird …. I hope. 😉

        1. wargame1 Avatar
          wargame1

          Thank you for the correction. Please watch that video about the Jewish Rabbi who is playing Al-Qaeda

  4. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Google this “Alliance Against America: Al Qaeda and Iran” for news.Throughout the 1990’s,Aiman Al-Zawahiri was a frequent guest in Iran of Ali Fallahian, Iran’s then-Minister of Intelligence, and Ahmad Vahidi, head of the IRGC’s Quds Force. In 2003,Washington Post reported on this “decade-old relationship” between Zawaheri Vahidi. Vahidi helped in achieving safe harbor for Al Qaeda operatives seeking sanctuary from the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 after sabotaging the Taliban

    1. man-o-war Avatar
      man-o-war

      Google “Bashar Al qaeda 9/11 truther/birther Hezbulshaitan regime Saudia Qataria” It will blow your mind. No Joke!

    2. man-o-war Avatar
      man-o-war

      I suggest anyone that takes Wargame up on his google offer check out the Leadership of the “Alliance Against America” website. Very legit leadership with no hidden agenda or bias. Amazing Wargame! Thank you from the bottom of my sole.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Was that a shoe-sole ?? 😉

      2. wargame1 Avatar
        wargame1

        The wbsite contain documented information coming from US intelligence. Now you can fool me by telling this propaganda but its the US intelligence who have gathered those information. I dont think Iran will get away with it.

  5. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Google this “Alliance Against America: Al Qaeda and Iran” for news.Throughout the 1990’s,Aiman Al-Zawahiri was a frequent guest in Iran of Ali Fallahian, Iran’s then-Minister of Intelligence, and Ahmad Vahidi, head of the IRGC’s Quds Force. In 2003,Washington Post reported on this “decade-old relationship” between Zawaheri Vahidi. Vahidi helped in achieving safe harbor for Al Qaeda operatives seeking sanctuary from the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 after sabotaging the Taliban

    1. man-o-war Avatar
      man-o-war

      Google “Bashar Al qaeda 9/11 truther/birther Hezbulshaitan regime Saudi Qataria” It will blow your mind. No Joke!

    2. man-o-war Avatar
      man-o-war

      I suggest anyone that takes Wargame up on his google offer check out the Leadership of the “Alliance Against America” website. Very legit leadership with no hidden agenda or bias. Amazing Wargame! Thank you from the bottom of my sole.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Was that a shoe-sole ?? 😉

      2. wargame1 Avatar
        wargame1

        The wbsite contain documented information coming from US intelligence. Now you can fool me by telling this propaganda but its the US intelligence who have gathered those information. I dont think Iran will get away with it.

  6. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Few weeks before Aiman Al-Zawaheri said in a statement “Lions of the Levant, unite around this honourable goal and rise above sectarian affiliations,” .He is referring to Hezbushaitan Rats as the “Lions of the Levant” and asking them to unite!

    Iranian/Israeli tool Iman Al-Zawahiri warned Syrians not to play into the hands of the US, which, he said, wanted to turn their Jihad into a “western tool against Iran.”

    HERE he is very clear on his stance in favor of Iran but unable to praise them directly for a sunni backlash so he goes other way around

    Iman Al-Zawaheri says….“America, its agents and allies want you to shed your blood and the blood of your children and women to bring down the criminal Baathist regime, and then set up a government loyal to them and to safeguard Israel’s security,”

    Look at his carefully crafted propaganda in favor of Bashar Iran Russia and Hezbushaitan. He doesnt accuse Iran Rassia and Hezbushaitans direct invasion in Syria. This is how they manipulate peoples thought. Now he want us to think that whoever is fighting Bashar is american agent! Well Mr.AIPAC Al Zawaheri we will see you get a Gaddafi treatment by the Syrian rebel.

    1. What has Israel to do with this ? honestly only arabs can come up with such anti-Israel bullshit

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Yes Cook … the rumours and conjecture and silly games are flying higher and faster now … everything is heating up in the Ramadan Peace Time. The BS flows all over the place and no-one in the world has a handle on their cracked-pots, except for the excellent chefs putting it out for the poor, who dare to line up various Mosques …. hoping they didn’t pick the next bomb-target by mistake. Great time to be alive, isn’t it? Exciting?
        (I’m recalling the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”)

        1. Unfortunately its also Christians and other minorites in arabic countries that also get taught to hate Israel and Jews *sigh*

          1. wargame1 Avatar
            wargame1

            How can it be “HatingJews”? Are you looking for a easy escape? The Muslims do not hate Jews. But if anyone try to frame Muslims with foul play then you dont look at their race first but you have to expose it and punish them for the crime be it a jew or a non jew.

        2. wargame1 Avatar
          wargame1

          This is a video of a son of a Jewish Rabbi who “converted to Islam” and then started to preach in killing civilians. The Al-Qaeda official channel on the youtube “Asshahab Media” proudly presented this Adam Ghadan AKA Adam Pearlman as their hero preaching to kill American civilian. Please watch this youtube video of this so call Muslim the son of a Jewish Rabbi.This is Al-Qaeda

          /watch?v=GsUtvOW6SR0

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ok. I did. If he’s been mentioned on fox news, he’s famous… or infamous.
            Whatever. There have always been double-agents – why not double-idiots too. 🙂
            I’m sure the people who need to know, know about them.
            I note that site also shows the 30 pieces of silver – inflated of course. :-))
            I think if we looked hard enough, we could find a number of characters who go against everyone’s grain. Exposing them can be good – because they can be notedly ignored after. (I loved the bit where a guy saws a head on a dummy… :-))
            You KNOW the ‘Silent Majority’ doesn’t agree with what these brain-dead morons ‘preach’ … and are surely not affected by them … why be part of the crowd who thinks they are somehow significant to the desire for general ‘Peace’ in the World’, or have become so powerful they could end all societies next month? Because, they can’t.

      2. wargame1 Avatar
        wargame1

        The Al-Qaeda cell that was arrested by the Palestinian police back in December, 2002 were all Mossad Agents.Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza.Google this “Fake Al Qaeda” and you will see the Palestinian police arrested those turned out to be Mossad. This news was buried later. I dont come up with baseless theory.
        This is to google “Israeli agents accused of creating fake al-Qaeda cell”

        News back in 2002 “A senior Palestinian security official says his services have uncovered an Israeli plot to create a fake al-Qaeda cell in the Gaza Strip, a charge Israel has dismissed as absurd.The head of preventive security in Gaza, Rashid Abu Shbak, said Israeli agents posing as operatives of al-Qaeda recruited Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”Over the past nine months we’ve been investigating eight [such] cases,” Mr Abu Shbak said.”

      3. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Looks like you have a ‘Fan’, Cook … The Arab who’s been in the sun too long. ;-)))

        1. I love how he comments on my posts here instead of JPost , probably afraid of Israeli Hasbara posters taking the piss out of him like they did 2 days ago 😉

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Was a new disruption here, and doesn’t seem to be Lebanese. 😉 Ah well …. we try to keep things Kosher … or , is that Halal … oh, whatever. Snack time.
            … hehehehe

          2. Am not a kosher food lover HOWEVER Halal when I live in England is a must

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I could NEVER understand why a Dill Pickle needed to be Kosherized … and they DO go so well with Pork Chops too. 🙂
            When my wife made them, they were better than the store-boughts, and we didn’t feel any great need to invite either a Mufti or a Rabbi to the bottling ceremony. :-)))

          4. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Do they have Halal’s Pickled Eggs in London yet?
            But I understand about the Bangers & Mash … might need a little more than ‘blessings’ sometimes … although after a pint of Local Dark, maybe it doesn’t matter. 😉

          5. um can I just say pickled eggs sounds disgusting , smells like bathroom pipes lol

            The halal places I go to are very unhealthy lol , I go to these fast food places and get for example 20 hot chicken wings and chips and maybe a burger after it lol , I eat sooo much in England

  7. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Few weeks before Aiman Al-Zawaheri said in a statement “Lions of the Levant, unite around this honourable goal and rise above sectarian affiliations,” .He is referring to Hezbushaitan the Shia Rats as the “Lions of the Levant” and asking them to unite!

    Iranian/Israeli tool Iman Al-Zawahiri warned Syrians not to play into the hands of the US, which, he said, wanted to turn their Jihad into a “western tool against Iran.”

    HERE he is very clear on his stance in favor of Iran but unable to praise them directly for a sunni backlash so he goes other way around

    Iman Al-Zawaheri says….“America, its agents and allies want you to shed your blood and the blood of your children and women to bring down the criminal Baathist regime, and then set up a government loyal to them and to safeguard Israel’s security,”

    Look at his carefully crafted propaganda in favor of Bashar Iran Russia and Hezbushaitan. He doesnt accuse Iran Rassia and Hezbushaitans direct invasion in Syria. This is how they manipulate peoples thought. Now he want us to think that whoever is fighting Bashar is american agent! Well Mr.AIPAC Al Zawaheri we will see you get a Gaddafi treatment by the Syrian rebel.

    1. cook2half Avatar
      cook2half

      What has Israel to do with this ? honestly only arabs can come up with such anti-Israel bullshit

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Yes Cook … the rumours and conjecture and silly games are flying higher and faster now … everything is heating up in the Ramadan Peace Time. The BS flows all over the place and no-one in the world has a handle on their cracked-pots, except for the excellent chefs putting it out for the poor, who dare to line up various Mosques …. hoping they didn’t pick the next bomb-target by mistake. Great time to be alive, isn’t it? Exciting?
        (I’m recalling the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”)

        1. cook2half Avatar
          cook2half

          Unfortunately its also Christians and other minorites in arabic countries that also get taught to hate Israel and Jews *sigh*

          1. wargame1 Avatar
            wargame1

            How can it be “HatingJews”? Are you looking for a easy escape? The Muslims do not hate Jews. But if anyone try to frame Muslims with foul play then you dont look atr their race first but you have to expose it and punish them for the crime be it a jew or a non jew.

          2. The whole world hates the Jews you stupid uncle tom piece of shit.

            For good reason, while Jews economically strangle Iran you cheer Israel on.

            Mentally sick fuck.

        2. wargame1 Avatar
          wargame1

          This is a video of a son of a Jewish Rabbi who “converted to Islam” and then started to preach in killing civilians. The Al-Qaeda official channel on the youtube “Asshahab Media” proudly presented this Adam Ghadan AKA Adam Pearlman preaching to kill American. Please watch this youtube video of this so call Muslim the son of a Jewish Rabbi.This is Al-Qaeda

          /watch?v=GsUtvOW6SR0

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ok. I did. If he’s been mentioned on fox news, he’s famous… or infamous.
            Whatever. There have always been double-agents – why not double-idiots too. 🙂
            I’m sure the people who need to know, know about them.
            I note that site also shows the 30 pieces of silver – inflated of course. :-))
            I think if we looked hard enough, we could find a number of characters who go against everyone’s grain. Exposing them can be good – because they can be notedly ignored after. (I loved the bit where a guy saws a head on a dummy… :-))

      2. wargame1 Avatar
        wargame1

        The Al-Qaeda cell that was arrested by the Palestinian police back in December, 2002 were all Mossad Agents.Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza.Google this “Fake Al Qaeda” and you will see the Palestinian police arrested those turned out to be Mossad.

      3. Shut the fuck up you pathetic piece of shit, go cheer sanctions on Iran on JPost again you spineless ape.

      4. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Looks like you have a ‘Fan’ Cook. The arab who’s been in the sun too long. ;-)))

        1. cook2half Avatar
          cook2half

          I love how he comments on my posts here instead of JPost , probably afraid of Israeli Hasbara posters taking the piss out of him like they did 2 days ago 😉

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Was a new disruption here, and doesn’t seem to be Lebanese. 😉 Ah well …. we try to keep things Kosher … or , is that Halal … oh, whatever. Snack time.
            … hehehehe

          2. cook2half Avatar
            cook2half

            Am not a kosher food lover HOWEVER Halal when I live in England is a must

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I could NEVER understand why a Dill Pickle needed to be Kosherized … and they DO go so well with Pork Chops too. 🙂

          4. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Do they have Halal’s Pickled Eggs in London yet?
            But I understand about the Bangers & Mash … might need a little more than ‘blessings’ sometimes … although after a pint of Local Dark, maybe it doesn’t matter. 😉

          5. cook2half Avatar
            cook2half

            um can I just say pickled eggs sounds disgusting , smells like bathroom pipes lol

            The halal places I go to are very unhealthy lol , I go to these fast food places and get for example 20 hot chicken wings and chips and maybe a burger after it lol , I eat sooo much in England

  8. AntiFSA Avatar

    On this one I agree with you wargame. I even gave you an arrow up. go figure

    1. The real lebanese Avatar
      The real lebanese

      I think every Lebanese agrees on this

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