READ THIS! VERY CRUCIAL! Abdelaziz Salame, the highest political leader of the Tawhid Brigade in Aleppo, has issued a statement online where he claims to speak for 13 different rebel factions. You can see the video or read it in Arabic here. The statement is titled “communiqué number one” – making it slightly ominous right off the bat – and what it purports to do is to gut Western strategy on Syria and put an end to the exiled opposition. The statements has four points, some of them a little rambling. My summary: All military and civilian forces should unify their ranks in an “Islamic framwork” which is based on “the rule of sharia and making it the sole source of legislation”. The undersigned feel that they can only be represented by those who lived and sacrificed for the revolution. Therefore, they say, they are not represented by the exile groups. They go on to specify that this applies to the National Coalition and the planned exile government of Ahmed Touma, stressing that these groups “do not represent them” and they “do not recognize them”. In closing, the undersigned call on everyone to unite and avoid conflict, and so on, and so on. The following groups are listed as signatories to the statement. Jabhat al-Nosra Islamic Ahrar al-Sham Movement Tawhid Brigade Islam Brigade Suqour al-Sham Brigades Islamic Dawn Movement Islamic Light Movement Noureddin al-Zengi Battalions Haqq Brigade – Homs Furqan Brigade – Quneitra Fa-staqim Kama Ummirat Gathering – Aleppo 19th Division Ansar Brigade obtained via Joshua Landis more on the story here joshualandis/blog/
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:26:38 +0000
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