“Al Qaida’s central command publicly has disowned its Iraqi affiliate over that group’s brutal activities in Syria in an unprecedented break that analysts say may weaken the Syrian insurgency and impact al Qaida’s operations across the Middle East. In a statement posted on jihadist forums late Sunday, al Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahiri and other commanders formally declared the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, not an al Qaida affiliate over its defiance of an order last year to limit its operations to Iraq and to leave operations in Syria to the official al Qaida affiliate there, the Nusra Front……………”
Remember when the Syrian “opposition” groups protested when Washington, correctly, declared Al Nusra Front a terrorist group? Even the so-called “secular” opposition leaders and thinkers and theoreticians ensconced in five-star exile objected. The usual Wahhabi enablers and financiers of Al Nusra and its ilk also objected at that time. Now Al-Qaeda HQ, if there is such a thing anymore, has come out that, yes, Al Nusra is its franchise in Syria.
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