Syrian rebels armed and trained by US surrender to al-Qaeda

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    Les rebelles syriens et Al-Nosra s’affrontent sur le champ de bataille et sur le web | Syrie
    ▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/dossiers/crise-dans-le-monde-arabe/syrie/201410/31/01-4814578-les-rebelles-syriens-et-al-nosra-saffrontent-sur-le-champ-de-bat

    Hazzem comme le FRS ont des relations avec l’Occident et sont favorables à l’instauration d’un État démocratique en Syrie alors que le Front Al-Nosra et le groupe État islamique (EI) combattent pour un État théocratique.

    Des militants ont publié une vidéo montrant le chef du FRS Jamal Maarouf, en habit militaire marchant avec ses combattants. Il lance à l’adresse du chef d’Al-Nosra Abou Mohammad al-Jolani : « Tu as terni le nom de l’islam, tu as terni la religion. Pourquoi tu nous attaques ? Vas combattre contre le régime ! ».

    « Tu n’es rien, tu es identique à Baghdadi, espèce de salaud », ajoute-t-il.

    Jamal Maarouf fait référence à Abou Bakr al-Baghdadi, qui dirige l’EI, un groupe connu pour sa brutalité inouïe.

    Al-Nosra lui répond via twitter l’accusant de « corruption « et de « s’éloigner de la révolution ».

    La province d’Idleb a été une des premières à tomber aux mains des rebelles après le début du soulèvement de 2011 en Syrie.

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      Syrian rebels armed and trained by US surrender to al-Qaeda - Telegraph
      ▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11203825/Syrian-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-US-surrender-to-al-Qaeda.html

      For the last six months the Hazm movement, and the SRF through them, had been receiving heavy weapons from the US-led coalition, including GRAD rockets and TOW anti-tank missiles.

      (...)

      “As a movement, the SRF is effectively finished,” said Aymen al-Tammimi, a Syria analyst. “Nusra has driven them out of their strongholds of Idlib and Hama.”

      The collapse of the SRF and attacks on Harakat Hazm have dramatically weakened the presence of moderate rebel fighting groups in Syria, which, after almost four years of conflict is increasingly becoming a battle ground between the Syrian regime and jihadist organisations.

      For the United States, the weapons they supplied falling into the hands of al-Qaeda is a realisation of a nightmare.

      It was not immediately clear if American TOW missiles were among the stockpile surrendered to Jabhat al-Nusra on Saturday. However several Jabhat al-Nusra members on Twitter announced triumphantly that they were.

      Also the loss of a group that had been held up to the international media as being exemplary of Western efforts in Syria is a humiliating blow at the time that the US is increasing its military involvement in the country, with both air strikes and training of local rebels.

      In Idlib, Harakat Hazm gave up their positions to Jabhat al-Nusra “without firing a shot” , according to some reports, and some of the men even defected to the jihadists.

      In Aleppo, where Harakat Hazm also has a presence, the group has survived, but only by signing a ceasefire agreement with Jabhat al-Nusra, and giving up some of their checkpoints to the group.
      Activists circulated the ceasefire document on social media last week.

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