A bombing tore through a house in northwestern Syria’s Idlib Province today, where the leaders of the Islamic Front’s largest faction, Ahrar al-Sham, had organized a meeting.
The blast killed at least 28 of the faction’s 50 attending leaders, and its chief, Hassan Aboud, was either seriously wounded or killed in the incident as well.
Ahrar al-Sham led the Islamic Front’s charge into ISIS territory earlier this year, and has accused ISIS of targeting their leadership in the past. There seems to be little question that today’s attack was more of ISIS handiwork.
The Ahrar al-Sham is funded predominantly by GCC member nations, primarily Kuwait, and aims to implement a strict form a Sharia law in Syria. Members of the group’s leadership have stated their long-time membership in al-Qaeda.
The leader most public in his al-Qaeda affiliation, Abu Khalif al-Suri, was assassinated by ISIS back in February, which led the group to push a more intense offensive against ISIS. It is unclear how well they will rebound this time, after losing such a large portion of their key leaders.
That ISIS crowd must be really hungry for recognition, that they would kill all radicals who are just a little less severe than they are. Let them keep fighting each other and it will be that many fewer that the US needs to make into bug splat with Hell fire missiles.
Obama's last speech, he was mum on who was supporting the number of terrorists group operating inside Syria…..could it be by choice?
Such a hapless group of total incompetence, surely who ever wasted those leaders did their Islamic Front a great service, for maybe now a younger group with good organizational skills get things right. For if they had the slightest ability to organize, only the leaders would have known of the meeting, the location would have been kept secret to the last minute and with the transportation so secret not even the leaders were informed.
Why do news and political outlets continue to call the Islamic State ISIS? Antiwar.com also seems to do this. Could there be some PC involved?