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FARS News Agency, Iran
May 14, 2013 Tuesday
Report: Terrorist Groups in Syria Recruiting Azeri Nationals
TEHRAN (FNA)- Terrorist groups are funneling Azeri nationals into
Syria via Turkey to boost their terrorist attacks on Damascus, local
media reports disclosed on Tuesday.
A report by Azeri ANS TV network unveiled shocking details on how
extremist groups in Syria, including Takfiri and Wahhabi jihadists,
are using different tactics to dispatch Azeri citizens from
Azerbaijan's Northern cities of Zaqatala and Qusar to Turkey and then
to Syria to conduct terrorist operations against the Syrian nation and
government.
A majority of the people in the two regions, located near Azerbaijan's
borders with the Russian Republic of Dagestan, are Sunni Muslims and
extremist groups in Syria have rearranged their plans to recruit men
from these two regions after people in the mainland gave a cold
shoulder to the extremist groups' offer of the so-called Jihad in
Syria.
"I am upset that my son has been sent to Syria by the Wahhabis. If he
is to take part in any war, he would have been better off if he had
been sent to Karabakh to fight against the Armenians and not the
Syrian Muslims," the mother of a young Azeri who has been sent to
Syria told ANS TV.
Similar media reports unveiled in March that militants from Russia's
North Caucasus have joined terrorist groups in Syria.
While Moscow has been one of Assad's main protectors, members of an
Islamist insurgency involved in daily clashes in Russia's
predominantly Muslim North Caucasus and their compatriots have
trickled into Syria to join the terrorists.
In a recently distributed video, Omar Abu al-Chechen urged fellow
Muslims to support the 'jihad' against Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad.
The video highlights the role militants from the volatile North
Caucasus region now play in Syria's civil war, fighting a government
that has been backed by Russia and staunchly protected by President
Vladimir Putin.
Syrian rebels confirmed separately that he is in Syria and the leader
of the brigade. His real name was not clear.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn'02240964
May 14, 2013 Tuesday
Report: Terrorist Groups in Syria Recruiting Azeri Nationals
TEHRAN (FNA)- Terrorist groups are funneling Azeri nationals into
Syria via Turkey to boost their terrorist attacks on Damascus, local
media reports disclosed on Tuesday.
A report by Azeri ANS TV network unveiled shocking details on how
extremist groups in Syria, including Takfiri and Wahhabi jihadists,
are using different tactics to dispatch Azeri citizens from
Azerbaijan's Northern cities of Zaqatala and Qusar to Turkey and then
to Syria to conduct terrorist operations against the Syrian nation and
government.
A majority of the people in the two regions, located near Azerbaijan's
borders with the Russian Republic of Dagestan, are Sunni Muslims and
extremist groups in Syria have rearranged their plans to recruit men
from these two regions after people in the mainland gave a cold
shoulder to the extremist groups' offer of the so-called Jihad in
Syria.
"I am upset that my son has been sent to Syria by the Wahhabis. If he
is to take part in any war, he would have been better off if he had
been sent to Karabakh to fight against the Armenians and not the
Syrian Muslims," the mother of a young Azeri who has been sent to
Syria told ANS TV.
Similar media reports unveiled in March that militants from Russia's
North Caucasus have joined terrorist groups in Syria.
While Moscow has been one of Assad's main protectors, members of an
Islamist insurgency involved in daily clashes in Russia's
predominantly Muslim North Caucasus and their compatriots have
trickled into Syria to join the terrorists.
In a recently distributed video, Omar Abu al-Chechen urged fellow
Muslims to support the 'jihad' against Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad.
The video highlights the role militants from the volatile North
Caucasus region now play in Syria's civil war, fighting a government
that has been backed by Russia and staunchly protected by President
Vladimir Putin.
Syrian rebels confirmed separately that he is in Syria and the leader
of the brigade. His real name was not clear.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn'02240964