...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group (ISIS).
Comments by various Syrian opposition groups followed a declaration by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, saying this week that his country was "ready to help not only the Syrian army, but all opposition units confronting bully boyz on the ground in Syria."
"We do not trust them (Russians)," said Ahmed Joaiwir, a military leader of Liwa' 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...
, one of the groups fighting ISIS. He said that was because Russia had first tried to fight the opposition to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
"But they failed, and our mujahideen were able to destroy them. They (Russia) got the opposite of what they aimed for. Now they want to work with those who Russia calls terrorists, but {ISIS} is a creation of Russian intelligence," he added.
Among the several influential armed Syrian opposition groups, some have united under the banner of the Supreme Military Council of Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, while others act independently.
Abu Yusuf al-Adnani, a military leader of the al-Jabha al-Shamiya opposition, called Russia "an enemy of the Syrian people."
"We don't want Russia's help and they are not welcome," he declared. "Russia had not even recognized the Syrian opposition, but after its major loses Russia decided to recognize the Syrian opposition," al-Andnani said.
Russia's first
According to Yassir al-Ta'I, head of public relations at the Free-fighters Movement of Levant, "Lavrov's statement is the best evidence of the mess the Russia has got itself into."
"Before, they used to say that there is no free army and no revolution, but now they offer to provide air cover for the revolutionaries against ISIS. We tell Mr. Lavrov: your interests are protected with the Syrian people and not al-Assad's regime," he said.
Abu Ammar, a military leader at the First Regiment gang, told Rudaw that "Russia is a terror state and aids bully boyz worldwide."
Russia officials have reported they have begun contacting the Syrian opposition.
Russian statements about working with the opposition are seen as a change in policy. Only two weeks before the start of Russian
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...named the Syrian army and Kurdish forces as the only forces "truly fighting ISIS."