"IHS
Jane´s Defence Weekly, Vol 49, issue 05, 1 February 2012
Sunni
jihadist veterans join forces with Syrian rebels
Jeremy Binnie, JDW Middle East/Africa Editor –
London. A new
jihadist group calling itself Jabhat al-Nusrah has announced that it has joined
the rebellion against the Syrian regime. In a
video released to a pro-Al-QWaeda internet forum on 24 January, the group said
it was responding to growing calls for jihadists to defend the Syrian people
against the contry´s security forces. It added that its fighters had returned
from various unspecified conflict zones. “We
give good news for the Ummah (Islamic community) by establishing Jabhat
al-Nusrah to protect Sham (the Levant) consisting of Sham mujahideen who were in
the areas of Jihad”, the video´s narrator said."
