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Will Hillary Clinton and the US administration please sort out their policy on Syria and the overthrow of the secular state institutions.
Date Assad will fall within days
Date SNC needs to get their act together
Date Doha, Qatar: Alliance regrouped and considered representative of all Syrian people
Date Toughest foreign fighters in rebel group now declared a terrorist organization
Responsible for summary executions, ethnic cleansing, advocating Islamic state with Sharia law in Aleppo
Now that the quagmire in Syria has become irreversible with imminent danger of spreading chemical weapons into the region: Lebanon and Iraq. Not that I haven’t warned for exact these developments months ago …
US declares Syria jihadists ‘terrorists’
Washington (News24) – The United States will declare the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group battling to overthrow Syria’s President Bashar Assad, a “foreign terrorist organisation”, documents showed on Tuesday. The State Department has not formally announced the move to blacklist the group, but posted the declaration in the Federal Register, in a document that described the al-Nusra Front as an alias of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The al-Nusra Front is one of the most effective of several armed groups fighting to overthrow the Syrian regime, raising concerns in the West that hardline Islamists are hijacking the 21-month-old revolt.
Syrian rebels defy US to back jihadist group
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The group has claimed responsibility for recent suicide bombings that killed scores of people, and has said it hopes to replace the Assad family’s four-decade-old dictatorship with a strict Islamic state. The State Department linked the group to al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has carried out scores of massive bombings targeting Shi’ite civilians and regularly targeted US forces before their withdrawal a year ago.
“We’ve had concerns that al-Nusra is little more than a front for al-Qaeda in Iraq, [which] has moved some of its operations into Syria,” State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said earlier on Monday.
Spokesperson Nuland said the State Department would “have more to say about this” in the coming days.
Declaring the al-Nusra Front a terrorist group would entail freezing its assets and banning Americans from any transactions with the group, which could complicate efforts to provide aid to Syria’s fragmented rebellion.
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Earlier on Monday, jihadists led by the al-Nusra Front seized a strategic army base in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. An AFP correspondent reporting from the scene said many of the fighters hailed from other Arab countries and Central Asia.
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