About Half of Syria Rebels Are Jihadists, i.e. Lung- & Heart-eaters
Secularists Are Miniscule Part of Overall "Rebellion". ■ A new report from defense analysts IHS Jane’s provided some of the first recent estimates of the size of Syria’s "rebellion", and more importantly the groups that make it up. They put the overall "rebel fighters" at 100,000 strong, but that is made up of some 1,000 different factions. Al-Qaeda directly commands the loyalty of around 10,000 of those fighters. nother 30,000 to 35,000 of the "rebels" [terrorists] are “jihadists” from pro-al-Qaeda factions that aren’t explicitly run by the group, and still 30,000 more represent various Islamist factions of a somewhat more moderate character. What’s left is the secularist component, a pretty small minority in the grand scheme of things, made doubly so by the fact that the al-Qaeda run forces like Jabhat al-Nusra have been dramatically more formidable in fighting. Jihadists have been the most active portion of the "rebellion", attacking ethnic Kurds and religious minorities nationwide, including three more Alawite villages sacked today in Homs Province.
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