Saturday
Dec152012
Syria Satire: A Beginner's Guide to the Islamist Insurgent Groups (Karl reMarks)
Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 8:38 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
"Liwa’a Al-Tawheed, or the Unity Brigades, is a splinter group. Irony isn’t their thing"
Jabhat Al-Nusra: No doubt the jewel in the crown of all Jihadi groups. Except that they don’t approve of jewels. Or crowns. Or embellishments of any kind. Sometimes they are mistakenly referred to as Jabhat Al-Nusra Front, which literally means The Nusra Front Front. But that makes them sound ridiculous. And if there’s one group you don’t want to piss off it’s the Jabhat Al-Nusra. In fact, don’t piss any of them to be on the safe side.