Date: September 10th, 2014 1:43 AM
Author: Ivory wild people who are hurt
not sure if you noticed but in one of the most elegant operations i can recall THE crucial opposition to ISIS was obliterated in an instant. at an anti-isis strategy meeting. where they were about to join the coalition of the willing moderates. the day before obamas big speech. and now theyre just gone. poof. the best/strongest/only sunni islamist opposition to isis no longer exists.
"Idilbi said the meeting of so many key leaders apparently had been called to consider whether Ahrar al Sham should join a new rebel coalition, the Council for Leading the Revolution, that would unite moderate rebels, including those receiving U.S. aid. The decision to join the coalition, whose formation was announced hours after the explosion, would have been a major change for the group, whose ties to the Nusra Front were so close that some U.S. intelligence officials have advocated that Ahrar al Sham be classified as an international terrorist organization.
Most of the dead were members of Ahrar al Sham’s moderate wing, Idilbi said.
The explosion was likely to prove fatal to the organization, which was once thought to have had as many as 35,000 fighters. Those fighters now are likely to drift to one of the other groups fighting in Syria -- the Free Syrian Army, Nusra or the Islamic State, the extremist group that has declared an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
McClatchy contacted one of the group’s leaders who had not been killed in the attack and asked whether there was an official statement on what took place.
“No one is left to issue an official statement,” he said, asking that he not be identified by name for security reasons. “We are waiting for our brothers who are still alive to regroup so we can hold a meeting.”
charles lister:
"Ahrar al-Sham leaders died of smoke inhalation, were considering joining new moderate coalition in #Syria:
#Syria’s Ahrar al-Sham Leadership Wiped Out in Bombing
PT: Losses extend through Ahrar al-Sham & Islamic Front’s political, military
& Islamic leadership. Consequences will be significant #Syria
Catastrophic losses for Ahrar al-Sham - several of whom I knew from research. Attack targeted meeting in #Idlib planning anti-IS offensive."
isis bros:
Abu Ottoman @RadioRome · 57s
Face it: As Ahrar's leaders were killed, Pentagon staffers were preparing PowerPoints on how they're a good moderate choice for USA to back.
I'm not happy just cuz Ahrar's leaders got killed. I'm happy tho for what this means for the hopes of Sahwat: fully snuffed out. An abortion
The best and most aggressive Sahwat commanders died today without the USA even noticing what happened, and they think they can this war. lol
Sep 8
40 countries decided to fight Islamic state n no boots on the ground. What's the point? You declared war but you are scared to fight.smh
@RadioRome · 14m
Mercenary boots on ground are not actual boots on ground?
lol. Obama used his army for feminist social experiments. Now he relies on mercs.
Pentagon's newspaper says they're building a mercenary army to fight #ISIS instead of putting "boots-on-the-ground."
Retweeted by Abu Ottoman
When word reached an #IS training camp that the #US might send troops, celebratory shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" could be heard all around
@ShamiWitness Incredible. With one suicide bomber ISIS has, at stroke, pretty much finished off one of the most powerful groups in Syria."
obama better be in it to win it. for damn sure isis is.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2670333&forum_id=2#26299534)