# SYRIA COMMITTEES WEBSITE / ISIS AND AL-NUSRA: A REFORMATION OF AL-QAEDA IN SYRIA …
Press Review / 2014 01 09 /
LM & KH for SYRIA COMMITTEES Website
with Your Middle East – PCN-SPO/
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Sometimes NATO’s medias are showing the naked truth.
Today SYRIA COMMITTEES Website reports “Radically rethinking the radical Syrian rebels”, an article of ‘Your Middle East’ on AL-NUSRA and other jihadists.
“Al-Nusra is not only a re-packaging of al-Qaeda; it is actually a reformation, a rationalization and a rethinking of al-Qaeda ” analysis YME …
Excerpts :
“Banner Icon War in Syria Misconceptions of the Syrian conflict scene has led to imprudent analysis and understanding of the most radical rebel groups, writes Syrian national Ibrahim Fayyad. Having closely followed the evolution of the Syrian rebels since their emergence as a major player in the Syrian Revolution, I find that most of the coverage of the conflict is disturbing. There are repeated mistakes in reading the conflict scene and the rebel map, which result in misguided analysis and evaluation of the rapidly unfolding events.”
4 MAIN GROUPS
“A while back we saw thousands of rebel groups come to life and it would have been difficult to examine the entire web of groups and affiliations. Today the task is somewhat easier as those small groups gather under unifying umbrellas. Four groups stand out and bring under their command roughly all the rebel fighters in Syria: the Revolutionary Front of Syria, the Islamic Front, al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS).”
ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND SHAM (ISIS)
“The most controversial is ISIS. It attracted the attention of the international media and intelligence services alike, though it is the smallest of the radical rebel groups. The interest in the ISIS is mainly because it is thought to be the most extreme and as often the case, wrongly reported to be an al-Qaeda affiliate. Unlike al-Nusra, ISIS didn’t declare itself as part of al-Qaeda. On the contrary, it defied Ayman al-Zawahiri and refused to disband itself showing that it’s not answerable to al-Qaeda.”
AL-NUSRA FRONT
“Al-Nusra Front, the only faction that is designated by the US as a terrorist organization, is the second champion of radicalism, from the international community perspective. al-Nusra constitutes a good case study for the difficulty in tracing the evolution of the fighting factions in Syria. It was established at the beginning of 2012. A year after its formation al-Nusra was split in two, giving birth to ISIS. The split sent al-Nusra into a transformation process (…)
Al-Nusra is not only a re-packaging of al-Qaeda; it is actually a reformation, a rationalization and a rethinking of al-Qaeda. Its leader al-Joulani in his first media appearance on Al-Jazeera stressed that al-Nusra is the outcome of the lessons learned in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. The application of those lessons and their consequences is what distinguishes al-Nusra from ISIS.”
THE IDEOLOGY OF AL-QAEDA
“ISIS and al-Nusra remain the closest groups to the ideology of al-Qaeda and while ISIS is stricter than the classical al-Qaeda, al-Nusra chooses a different path to social Islamic reformation and is more open to cooperation with other groups. However, both ISIS and al-Nusra have gone far in penetrating the Syrian society and the Middle Eastern society at large.”
“(…) Despite the radical transformation and expansion of al-Qaeda and its sister organization(s) (i.e. ISIS) we still see the same rigid approach towards those organizations from the West and the US particularly. The eradication attempt of al-Qaeda and its host, the Taliban, in Afghanistan has failed badly and instead of bringing al-Qaeda to an end, it helped it to expand across the Muslim world and beyond while its host the Taliban is still holding on with undeniable political and social influence and presence.”
Quotations from ‘Your Middle East’/
Titles and comments : SYRIA COMMITTEES Website
Pic: Supporters of Al-Nusra march in the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo on February 8, 2013 (AFP)
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