Querelle sur l’auteur du bombardement dans la région d’Idlib qui a tué (entre autres) le leader d’al-Nousra (et vétéran d’al-Qaïda) Abou Firas al-Souri.
Un porte-parole du Pentagone a affirmé qu’il s’agissait d’une opération américaine et Reuters reprend :
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKCN0X11R3
The United States has carried out an air strike in Syria that killed a prominent leader of al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front, Abu Firas al-Suri, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
Islamist rebel sources said Abu Firas, who was a former Syrian army officer discharged in the late 1970s because of his Islamist leanings, was a founding member of the militant group and had fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
He was a senior member of Nusra Front’s policy-making Shura Council.
A Pentagon spokesman said a U.S. air strike on Sunday hit a meeting of high-level al Qaeda officials in northwest Syria at which Abu Firas was present. The spokesman, Peter Cook, said the United States was still confirming whether Abu Firas had been killed
Idem pour Associated Press :
▻https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-confirms-strike-al-qaeda-syria-191025836.html
Mais le gouvernement syrien dément et affirme qu’il s’agit de l’aviation syrienne :
Site al-Masdar News (pro-régime) :
▻https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-government-refutes-u-s-claims-killing-top-nusra-commander
ou al-Mayadeen (par @george) :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/476497#message476566
