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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Nusra Front Leader Calls on Lebanese Sunnis to Defect from Army
2014-09-30
[AnNahar] The leader of al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has called on Leb's Sunnis to defect from the army.

"Sunnis, take your sons away from the army that serves your enemy, and make them join the ranks of the jihadists," al-Jolani, who heads al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front in Syria, said in an audio recording on Sunday.

Sunni faceless myrmidons perceive Leb's army as being controlled by Shiite Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
, which has sent thousands of fighters into Syria to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's troops in a war that has killed more than 180,000 people in three years.

The Syria war has stoked existing tensions in Leb, where Sunnis tend to support the uprising against Assad while Shiites generally support the Damascus regime.

Last month, the Lebanese army fought pitched battles in the border town of Arsal with al-Nusra and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadists who streamed in from Syria.

The jihadists withdrew after a truce, but took with them police and military troops as hostages, three of whom were later executed.

Al-Golani also warned that his group would "use all possible means" to fight back against Arclight airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition and warned that the conflict would reach Western countries joining the alliance.

The U.S. views al-Nusra Front, as a terrorist group, but Syrian rebels have long seen it as a potent ally against both the IS -- which is the main target of the coalition -- and Assad's forces.

In the 25-minute audio recording, al-Golani portrayed the U.S.-led coalition as a "Crusader alliance" against Sunnis and vowed to fight back.

"We will use all that we have to defend the people of Syria...from the Crusader alliance," al-Golani said. "And we will use all possible means to achieve this end," he said, without offering more details.

He went on to warn Western countries against taking part in the alliance in words that echoed those of the late founder of al-Qaeda, the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
"This is what will cause the battle to be transported to the hearts of your own homes; because Moslems will not stand idly by and watch Moslems be bombed and killed in their countries, while you are safe on your countries. The price of war will not be paid by your leaders alone. You will pay the biggest price," he said.

The recording appeared genuine.
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