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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Opposition's Khoja meets Syria rebel commanders in Amman
2015-06-11
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A well-informed source said leader of key Syrian opposition, the National Coalition, has met with Zahran Alloush, Jaish al-Islam's
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
commander and number of rebel commanders in Jordan's capital.

Amman's secret meeting was organized by the Coalition in step to form a common ground between political and armed opposition as well as to build trust ties, the source said.

The rebel commanders who attended the meeting have represented Homs Legion, Suqour al-Sham, Quds Legion, Ajnad al-Sham Union, Islam Army, Al-Ezza Battalions, Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
movement, Suqour al-Ghab, Fursan al-Haq brigades and Division 13.

The source said NC leader Khaled Khoja individually had arranged the meeting without any presence for the defense minister of the opposition interim government and rebel representatives in the Coalition.

Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) boycotted the meeting as demands of the moderate group were not fulfilled by Khoja.
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