Morning Star.png "Moderates" Order Food-Carriers Killed Terrorists will 'execute' anyone breaking their siege James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 11 February 2016 Western-backed "moderates" in Syria are threatening to publicly 'execute' anyone supplying food to besieged government-held areas. The edict from the self-styled Judicial Council of the Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) was posted on the Twitter account of the web-based Terror Monitor and translated for the Morning Star. The group's decree, issued on Monday, said that it must be circulated to all mosques and imams in the areas under its domination by today. It orders that anyone caught 'smuggling' food, fuel or other human necessities into the besieged villages of Kafarya and Fu'ah, north-east of Idlib city, will be executed in the square of their home town. The statement is peppered with fundamentalist and sectarian language, referring to President Bashar al-Assad's government as the "criminal Alawite regime" - a reference to the Shi'ite sect that the Assad family belongs to and those who help it as "defectors in the army of Satan." Terrorist factions The Army of Conquest, which occupies the northern Syrian city of Idlib and most of the surrounding province, is an alliance of extremist factions, with the two most prominent being the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham, which boasts 10,000-20,000 guerrillas. Ahrar as-Sham's inclusion in the Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC), along with the equally brutal Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), provoked protests from Syria and Russia that terrorists had been invited to the Geneva negotiating table. But the HNC refused to enter the UN-mediated talks until the government agreed to their precondition of a unilateral ceasefire and the free flow of supplies to insurgent pockets. The HNC finally abandoned any pretence of negotiation last week after the Syrian army, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and Russian air strikes, cut their main supply line from Turkey north of Aleppo. Starve to save? Monday's edict claims a humanitarian motive for starving the population of the two villages into surrender or death, declaring that the aim is to end the army's sieges of militant-held areas. One of those areas is the town of Madaya, where Ahrar ash-Sham gunmen opened fire overnight on Wednesday on a Red Crescent convoy evacuating three sick people. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. Save who? Crucially the decree speaks of "liberating the Islamic State of al-Sham" (Isis). From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-f92f-Moderates-vow-to-kill-food-smuggle rs#.VrwKR_l9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
