Oppositions syriennes. L’auteur utilise les récents accrochages entre deux des groupes d’opposants syriens - les Bataillons Farouq et le Front al-Nusra – pour dresser un portrait à charge de ce dernier (considéré comme une organisation terroriste par les Etats Unis). En creux, il s’attache à dessiner une Syrie partagée entre les tenants d’un islam modéré, ambitionnant de mettre en place un régime laïc, et les islamistes pour lesquels seul un émirat placé sous le régime de la loi islamique à sa place.
Islamists, secular rebels battle in Syria over Nusra Front’s call for Islamic state
By David Enders, Mc Clatchy Newspapers
Tuesday March 26, 2013
▻http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/03/26/186970/islamists-secular-rebels-battle.html?storylink=addthis
“TAL ABYAD, Syria — Two Syrian rebel groups – one seeking an elected civil government, the other favoring the establishment of a religious state – are battling each other in the city of Tal Abyad, on the border with Turkey, in a sign of the tensions that are likely to rule this country if the government of President Bashar Assad falls. Four people were killed Sunday in fighting here between the Farouq Battalions, which favors elections, and Jabhat al Nusra, or the Nusra Front, which the United States has declared an al Qaida-affiliated terrorist group. Since then, Farouq has been massing men here in an example of the growing friction that’s emerged in recent months as Nusra has captured strategic infrastructure across Syria’s north and east, including oil and gas installations, grain silos and a hydroelectric dam.”