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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Newly-Formed Islamic Front Seizes Syria-Turkey Border Crossing
2013-12-11
[An Nahar] Syria's largest Islamist rebel force seized a crossing on the Turkish border Tuesday from other rebels, including brigades loyal to the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamic Front, a new grouping of the most powerful Islamist rebel groups battling to overthrow Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, seized the Bab al-Hawa crossing in northwestern Syria.

The capture came after the Islamic Front seized arms depots near the crossing belonging to the Free Syrian Army at the weekend, heightening tensions among the fractured Syrian opposition.

Last week the Islamic Front rejected the authority of the FSA, which was the first major rebel force formed after the outbreak of Syria's civil war and was made up of army deserters and civilians.

The Islamic Front was formed last month by six rebel groups that merged with the goal of overthrowing the Assad regime and establishing an Islamic state.

It does not include al-Nusra Front or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) -- two jihadist rebel groups linked to al-Qaeda.
Posted by:Fred

#3  OOOOOPPPPSIES, forgot TOPIX > AL QAEDA THREAT CAUSES SYRIA'S REVOLUTIONARIES TO RETHINK ASSAD.

Assad rethink = Iran rethink = Nuclear Iran rethink???

Reminds me once again of ROBIN WILLIAMS' post-911 skit, i.e. WHEN IT COMES TO FRANCE = EUROPE BEING INVADED BY THE GERMANS OR SOVIETS,
"YANKEE/AMERICAN GO HOME" LOCAL RANTS QUICKLY DEVOLS INTO "YANKEE/AMERICA, COME BACK, WE LOVE YOU".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-12-11 20:57  

#2  See also RELATED TOPIX > [Long War Journal] NEW "ISLAMIC FRONT BRIGADE" LAUNCHED JOINT RAID WID AL-QAEDA SYRIAN BRANCHES.

As agz Assad's + the Hezbollah Boyz.

* Also from TOPIX > AL-QAEDA OFFICIAL: FORCE NEEDED TO ESTABLISH SHARIA IN EGYPT, aswell as rest of Muslim Middle East.

* SAME > [World Tribune = East-Asia-Intel] AL-QAEDA ARMIES FORMING IN SYRIA POSE THREAT TO ENTIRE REGION.

* SAME > [Arutz Sheva] FORMER IDF HEAD [Dan Halutz]:ISRAEL PREFRS ASSAD [Regime] TO ISLAMIST RADICALS.

Finally, some most-assuredly-NOT-PCorrect T-R-U-T-H.

Ditto SSSSSHHHHH ... CCCCCCCCC POTUS Bammer Admin - IFF THE US-ALLIES COVERTLY PREFER ASSAD,BY EXTENSION THEY MUST ALSO COVERTLY PREFER ASSADIAN TREATY BFF IRAN, ALBEIT ROUGHLY = NOT WIDOUT QUESTIONS???

RELATED BHARAT RAKSHAK = ...
> [Guardian.UK] ANALYSIS: IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL SHOWS US PREPARED TO ACT INDEPENDENTLY OF ALLIES.
> DEFENCE/PK/FORUMS, TOPIX > MIDDLE EAST RELATION A MAJOR FACTOR FOR US IN IRAN NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS?

As goes ISRAEL + KSA vee Syria + Iran, so goes JAPAN + PHIL + ASEAN, India? vee China in East Asia-Pacific???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-12-11 20:52  

#1  The Islamic Front, a new grouping of the most powerful Islamist rebel groups

Is this like a pick-up baseball game where you choose teams from whoever happens to show up? And afterwards, we all go over to Mamoud's for a little s*d*my practice.
Posted by: SteveS   2013-12-11 00:34  

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