Syrian 'rebels' behead man, execute 2 women

by: Jerome R. Corsi 
Libyan expatriate sources proven to be credible have posted a gruesome video on YouTube showing a group of Syrian “rebels” brutally beheading a man and shooting two women and tossing their bodies down a hole in the ground.
The Libyan expatriates forwarded the video to WND to make bolster their claim that the “rebel forces” about to be armed by the Obama administration are made up of radical Islamic terrorist groups with international ties to al-Qaida.

graphic video:
http://youtu.be/g6R29cEGF08 




Reliable sources have identified the Syrian Islamic terrorists in the video as members of Syria’s al-Nusra Front, a group of radical Islamic terrorists that are allied with al-Qaida in Iraq. Several of the terrorists in the video have been identified as European and are thought to be recruits to Syria from radical Islamic groups in Kosovo.
These same sources explained to WND the man beheaded in the video and the two women shot were most likely supporters of the Syrian regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and/or secular Muslims who did not embrace the goal of the al-Nursa Front to establish a religious government in Syria after deposing the Assad regime.
In June, Real Clear Politics reported that radical Islamic Jihadists from Europe and across the Middle East have streamed to Syria to obtain valuable battleground experiences.
The report also said the so-called “moderate” Syrian Free Army, composed primarily of defectors from the Syrian army, have decided to cooperate with al-Nursa fighters to destroy the Assad regime.

The incident in the video occurred in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, near the northern border with Turkey.
In May, the United Nations Security Council voted to blacklist Syria’s al-Nusra front in a decision that subjected the group to sanctions, including an arms embargo and travel bans.
The U.S. State Department designated al-Nusra as a terrorist organization last December.
Reports from Syria http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/24/192185/despite-word-of-split-over-al.html#.UcIpVT5AR4E indicate that among the so-called “rebel forces” fighting to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the al-Nursa Front has been one of the most effective fighting groups, exerting an increasing influence over rebel tactics.
“Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) is a Syrian jihadist group fighting against Bashar Al-Assad’s Ba’athist regime, with the aim of establishing an Islamist state in Syria,” according to a strategic briefing prepared by >a href=”http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about/”>the Quilliam Foundation, a London-based thinktank.
“With approximately 5000 members JN is by no means the largest group fighting in the conflict, although it has often been described as the most effective. There are a number of similarities between JN and al-Qaeda In Iraq (AQI), which serves as evidence of their shared history beginning in the early 2000s. The short-term strategy of JN is primarily military focused, although preparations are being made for long-term sustainability of the group, including the organization of a humanitarian support group and the procurement of heavy weaponry.

In May, Al-Jazeera reported that Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani has stated in a YouTube video posted on April 10, that: “The sons of al-Nursa Front pledge allegiance to Sheik Ayman al-Zawahiri, the former right-hand man of Osama bin Laden, currently identified as the acting head of al-Qaida.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview Feb. 26, 2012, with CBS, acknowledged that Zawahiri and al-Qaida were supporting the opposition to Assad in Syria.
The Obama administration has yet to explain how weapons shipped to supply Syrian rebels will be kept out of the hands of al-Nursa and al-Qaida.
A report published by the New York Times in March documented how the CIA was already providing arms to the Syrian rebels by supplying weapons in a secret airlift involving Turkey, Jordan, and Qatar.
According to the New York Times, the secret weapons airlift had by March of this year grown to 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi, and Qatari military cargo flights landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara, Turkey, and to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports, with the weapons aimed for delivery to the rebels fighting Assad in Syria.