But for reasons I can’t fathom the McRINO Brigade in Congress wants us to overlook al-Qaeda elements within the rebel ranks and send them sophisticated weaponry to take down the Assad regime.
Via LWJ:
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, a jihadist group in Syria linked to al Qaeda, has claimed credit for a complex suicide attack and ambush that targeted the Syrian military at a camp in Idlib.
The terror group released a statement today claiming credit for the June 1 suicide attack that targeted the “the brutal Nusayri enemy,” a reference to Syria’s Alawites, the Shia sect that makes up much of Syria’s leadership. The Al Nusrah statement, which was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, said the suicide attack was designed to avenge the Houla massacre, where 90 Syrians, including 32 children, were killed. Al Nusrah also claimed credit for a host of other operations, including ambushes and IED attacks.
The Idlib suicide bomber, who was not named, detonated a “military ‘Zil’ vehicle packed with explosives in the middle of the “al Nayrab Camp,” which it described as ” the largest military camp in Qati’ Idlib.”
Al Nusrah then claimed that the suicide attack was followed up with an ambush and IED attacks as Syrian troops moved to the camp to conduct rescue operations.
“[In] order to complete the work, the soldiers of the Al Nusrah Front ambushed the supply line that came to the camp to transport the wounded and help them, and then blew up by the grace of Allah seven explosive devices at the convoys that were sent to supply the blown up camp on Saraqib Road,” the statement said.
Al Nusrah described the unit that carried out the Idlib operation as the “brigade of al-Iz bin Abdul Salam.” This is likely a eference to Al-`Izz Ibn `Abdus-Salaam, a 13th century Islamic scholar from Syria who also fought in the Crusades, according to Islamweb.
The coordinated complex nature of the Idlib suicide attack and ambush indicates that seasoned jihadists with experience on the battlefields in the Middle East and South Asia fighting with the Al Nusrah Front.