Foreign jihadists fighting against the regime in Syria 'apostate'

Foreign Sunni groups join the fight against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. In northern Syria the local revolutionaries have come, sometimes with suspicion, foreign jihadists.  But if the enemy is the same, the motivations are different. Syrian rebels claim to shed their blood to overthrow a despotic regime, while foreign fighters state that your Jihad (holy war of Muslims) are intended to oust the Alawites, shed belonging to Islam Asad, whom they consider apostates. In Bab al-Hawa, a border with Turkey taken last week by the Syrian Army Free (ESL, composed mostly of deserters from the army), the AFP news agency witnessed the arrival of dozens of fighters from countries Arabs or Muslims. Among them there are those who claim to come from Algeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, as well as the distant Chechnya (a republic of the Russian Federation) or Somalia. Since the beginning of the uprising, in March 2011, the Syrian regime to demonstrate that the movement was not just a foreign conspiracy, accused of hosting rebel fighters of Al Qaeda. It is very difficult to know the exact number of foreign fighters or jihadis, in the Syrian territory, but it is certain that the rebels Syriansdo not want to admit that these fighters have an important role in the battle. In the central province of Hama, a rebel who is presented as Abu Amar and say the command of 1,200 men, states unambiguously: "Never allow Al Qaeda to be installed here and kill these fighters if they try to do it. The revolution belongs to the Syrians. "

Call for jihadists

However, the evidence shows otherwise, and several websites published called Islamists to join the revolt. One of them, called 'Global Jihad Network', went online in June called inciting "volunteers to join the Jihad in Syria." In another website, Abu Bakr al-Husseini, who is presented as the 'emir' of the 'Islamic State of Iraq' (ISI), a branch of the Al Qaeda, said: "I do not forget that we stand with our brothers in our beloved Syria, "adding that the ISI does not recognize" artificial boundaries ". The Lebanese group Fatah al Islam, also linked to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack of a military vehicle in the northern province of Aleppo. "Thirty Alawite soldiers were killed in the field in Aleppo," said a statement on June 18. The text describes the Alawites as "Shiites heretics." In April, the head of this organization, Abdel Ghani Jawhar, wanted in Lebanon for the killing of 14 Lebanese soldiers in Tripoli in 2007, was assassinated in Syria. In an Internet forum, a statement from a group called Ansar al-Sham states that "the world must know that Syria has begun to attract young Arabs willing to join the revolutionaries and combatants." The statement added that "nobody has the right to criticize that Syria has become a territory for the international jihad."