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Syrian Rebel Group Pledges Allegiance To Al Qaeda. by panafrican(m): 3:46pm On Apr 10, 2013
Good luck America in your support to those al Qaeda folks who were Allah praising after attacking your country in September 2001. As an African proverb goes Trouble does not look for people, but people look for trouble.

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Alleged leader of Al-Nusra Front vows to obey al-Qaeda, but backs off reports of "merger" with network's Iraq branch
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Last Modified: 10 Apr 2013 14:16
A man claiming to be the head of a key group fighting the Syrian government has purportedly pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda, but also distanced his group from earlier claims it had merged with the Iraq branch of the armed network.

"The sons of Al-Nusra Front pledge allegiance to Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri," the man who identified himself as Abu Mohammed al Julani said in an audio clip posted on YouTube that went public on Wednesday.

Zawahiri is known to be the chief commander of al-Qaeda.

Julani, who is recognised as the head of the group Jabat al Nusra, or Al-Nusra Front, said in the video that his fighters had declared from the start of the uprising that Sharia law needs to be enforced across Syria, but did not want to announce the group's affiliation to al-Qaeda prematurely.

He added, "we were not consulted" on an announcement by al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Tuesday of a merger with the Al-Nusra Front.

"We inform you that neither the Al-Nusra command nor its consultative council, nor its general manager were aware of this announcement. It reached them via the media and if the speech is authentic, we were not consulted," Julani said.

Continue reading @ http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/04/2013410114851988704.html

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