An Interview With Four Western-Educated Radical Jihadists In Syria

Fighters from the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra clean their weapons in Aleppo December 24, 2012. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)

Dining With Al Qaeda -- Anna Therese Day, Daily Beast

An American reporter in Syria sits down to talk to four Western-educated, radical jihadists about the war and what they think Washington should do. By Anna Therese Day.

I knocked over my tea. The explosion outside the house in northern Syria startled me. But the Pakistani, the Kuwaiti, and the two Saudi fighters breaking the Ramadan fast with me seemed unperturbed. “You wouldn’t be so scared if you had Allah, Anna!” one of them said.

The four young men were members of a group called the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams—more commonly known as ISIS. It is an organization that has close ties to Al Qaeda. One of the quandaries for Washington as it approaches greater involvement in Syria is how to try to bring down the hated Assad government, accused of using chemical weapons on its own people, without handing power—and perhaps those weapons—to radical jihadists such as ISIS. For their part, these men wanted to convince me of the righteousness of their cause.

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My Comment: These people have no interest in negotiations, compromise, or accommodation .... it's there way or you are dead.