Members of Al Qaeda's Nusra Front in a convoy touring villages, which they said they have seized control of from Syrian rebel factions, in the southern countryside of Idlib, on December 2, 2014.
Pamela Engel, Business Insider: Al Qaeda is revealing its long game in Syria
Al Qaeda is employing a strategy that might help the terrorist group outlast ISIS in Syria, and it's revealing its true jihadist endgame in the process.
As a different terrorist group, ISIS — aka the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh — claims responsibility for a terrorist attack in Belgium, Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front (also known as Jabhat al-Nusra) is flying under the radar, hoping to continue gaining influence in Syria.
And experts think that it could be a bigger threat to the US than ISIS in the long term.
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WNU Editor: Winning over the civilian population has always been a problem for Al Qaeda for the simple reason that most Muslims do not accept their extremist interpretation of Islam. And while the conflict in Syria has made everyone an "extremist" .... all wars come to an end, and I fail to see how Al Qaeda can then find a place in such a Syria.
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