Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
, saying they cannot depend on the West for help.
Ayman al-Zawahri, in a videotaped statement released late Saturday, asked Moslems in Iraq, Jordan, Leb and Turkey to join the uprising against Assad's "pernicious, cancerous regime." All four states border Syria.
A senior Iraqi security official also told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Saturday that intelligence over the last four months has revealed a flow of al-Qaeda-linked fighters from the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul into Syria.
The comments by both the Iraqi official and al-Zawahri came a day after two suicide car boomers struck security compounds in Aleppo,...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
a Syrian city that had been relatively peaceful throughout the country's 11-month-uprising. Though there was no claim of responsibility, suicide kabooms are a hallmark of al-Qaeda.
"There is no treatment for (the Assad regime) other than removal," al-Zawahri says in the eight-minute video posted on jihadist websites, according to US-based SITE Intel Group, which monitors Death Eater messages.
"Don't depend on the West and Turkey, which had deals, mutual understanding and sharing with this regime for decades and only began to abandon it after they saw it faltering," he said. "Instead, depend on Allah alone and then on your sacrifices, resistance, and steadfastness."
He urged Syrians to oppose help from the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
and "its corrupt agent governments." The League has put forth a plan to try to end violence in Syria but it suspended an observers mission to the country after the regime flouted its agreement to the terms of the plan.
Hours later, a Sunni sheik in Iraq's northern Kurdish region said a group of holy mans in the area is calling for a Moslem jihad, or holy war, against Assad's regime.
"Jihad is the duty of every Moslem against the Assad regime," said Sheik Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Karim Barzanji, describing the edict issued by the Union of the Scholars of Islam in Kurdistan. "Any support from any Moslem or country is forbidden."
Egyptian-born al-Zawahri took over al-Qaeda after the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...
was killed last May by a US special forces raid on his hideout in Pakistain.
The Iraqi official said at least two Syrian jacket wallahs who trained in djinn-infested Mosul have crossed the border to join the fight in Syria.
Fighters armed with guns and explosives also have headed from Iraq to Syria, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss intelligence.
A US official in Washington, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said it would not be surprising if Iraqi al-Qaeda gunnies are aiding Syrian rebels, but would not discuss or confirm specific intelligence. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the official noted that al-Qaeda in Iraq long has had an operational network in Syria.