@assalam12 : oui, sauf que Barthe rapporte les propos de Maarouf qui se plaint de ce que les USA n’ont pas vraiment combattu al-Nousra mais il oublie tout de même de rappeler que le même Maarouf déclarait à The Independent en 2014 qu’al-Nousra « n’était pas son problème ». Il admettait même combattre aux côtés d’al-Nousra : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/244053
L’article en question a disparu du site de The Independent mais l’on en trouve la reproduction un peu partout sur le Net :
▻http://www.handsoffsyriasydney.com/articles/i-am-not-fighting-against-al-qaida-its-not-our-problem-says-wests-last-hope-in-syria/?print=pdf
Speaking from a safe house on the outskirts of the Turkish
town of Antakya, Jamal Maarouf, the leader of the Syrian
Revolutionary Front (SRF) told The Independent that the fight against al-Qa’ida was “not our problem” and admitted his fighters conduct joint operations with Jabhat al-Nusra – the official al-Qa’ida branch in Syria.
[...]
But while Maarouf and his men were happy to fight Isis, a
group of predominantly foreigners, he said he would not go
after Jabhat al-Nusra. “It’s clear that I’m not fighting
against al-Qa’ida. This is a problem outside of Syria’s
border, so it’s not our problem. I don’t have a problem with
anyone who fights against the regime inside Syria,” he said.
Maarouf admits to fighting alongside Jabhat al-Nusra – one example being the offensive against Isis, whose brutal tactics were deemed too violent even for al-Qa’ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Et dans le même article Maarouf admettait, cerise sur le gâteau, partager les armes qu’il recevait avec al-Nousra dans les cas d’opérations conjointes, à la demande de ses « soutiens » :
While Maarouf maintains that their military supplies are too few to share, he cites the battle of Yabroud, against the regime, as an example of how his group shared weapons with Jabhat al-Nusra.
“If the people who support us tell us to send weapons to another group, we send them. They asked us a month ago to send weapons to Yabroud so we sent a lot of weapons there. When they asked us to do this, we do it.”
Ces remarques n’enlèvent rien au fait que c’est déjà un petit évènement que de voir enfin admis dans Le Monde ce que tout le monde sait depuis bien longtemps - et la DIA américaine au moins depuis 2012...
