Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has voiced his support for the Syrian uprising in a new video message released on jihadist forums, US website monitors said on Sunday.
In the video titled Onwards, Lions of Syria, Zawahiri criticised the Syrian regime for crimes against its citizens, and praised those rising up against the government, the SITE Intelligence Group said.
Zawahiri, shown in front of a green curtain in the video released Saturday which runs for over eight minutes, urged Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments, whom he said would impose a new regime subservient to the West.
He called on Muslims in Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon to support the uprising and remove the current regime which he condemned as anti-Islam....
Other reports suggest that al Qaeda operatives are already leaving Iraq for Syria and the US has said that the recent attack in Aleppo was by al Qaeda. The group likes to create chaos that it can exploit to take over, but the Syrian opposition is probably too organized to fall for their game.
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