Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Syria Is Now Jihad Central

Syria's al-Nusra Front. Business Insider

Syria Is Jihad Central: 6,000 Terrorists Flood New al Qaeda Training Ground -- Washington Times/Washington Free Beacon

Thousands of foreign terrorists traveled to Syria over the past several months to wage jihad, or holy war, in what U.S. officials say is fast becoming a new international terror training ground.

Most of the foreign terrorists are fighting for the al Qaeda-linked group the al-Nusra Front and are coming from around the world, mainly from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia, by crossing the Syrian border with Turkey. The al-Nusra Front is the most well organized and ideologically motivated armed opposition group after the secular Free Syrian Army.

“The Syrian opposition is benefiting from a steady flow of foreign fighters who seem to be joining a variety of Islamist-oriented brigades or, on a smaller scale, starting up nationality-based units,” said one U.S. official familiar with internal reports on the region.

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My Comment: Only 6,000 jihadist wannabes?

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