A Nightmare Group in Syria -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- The chamber of horrors of the Syrian civil war has spawned a terrorist group so extreme that it has been rejected even by al-Qaeda -- and this toxic group is now establishing a safe haven in the city of Raqqah in northern Syria that could soon be used to attack foreign targets.
The hyper-militant terrorist group is known in the West as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Its efforts to establish a Muslim caliphate that spans the two countries, and to absorb another al-Qaeda offshoot known as the al-Nusra Front, brought a rebuke a year ago from al-Qaeda's chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
"I have to choose between the rule of God and the rule of Zawahiri, and I choose the rule of God," thundered Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the charismatic leader of ISIS. The group went its own fiery way after it was denounced by Zawahiri, leaving the al-Nusra Front as al-Qaeda's official Syrian affiliate.
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WNU Editor: The BBC has a good profile on ISIS here.
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These guys really know how to destroy a religion's image.
So much so that even al qaeda had condemned them.
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