Special Dispatch No. 4524—Syria/Arab Spring Following are excerpts from an interview with Mahmoud Mar'i, head of a human rights organization in Syria. The interview aired on the Iranian Al-Alam TV on January 1, 2012. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3329.htm. Mahmoud Mar'i: "Of course, we oppose any violence, whatever the source may be – be it the regime or individuals who perpetrate killings…" To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6121.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4523—Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project/Iran/Egypt/Syria/Arab Spring/Inter-Arab Relations Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. In a message posted on his Facebook page, prominent jihadi sheikh Abu Basir Al-Tartousi exhorted the Egyptian people to close the Suez Canal to Iranian arms vessels headed for Syria, since these arms are intended for use against the Syrian people. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. Special Dispatch No. 4522—Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor/Syria/Arab Spring Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. As the violence in Syria continued to escalate and with armed resistance to Bashar Assad's forces on the rise, a dispute broke out between online jihadis and senior cleric Abu Basir Al-Tartousi, a Syrian expat based in London. The dispute began when Tartousi published a post on his Facebook page saying that there was no need for mujahideen to travel to Syria to aid the Syrian people in their fight against the Assad regime, as Syria did not lack its own "valiants." Tartousi did, however, call on the mujahideen to support the Syrian people by sending them the money, arms, and doctors they did lack. He called on those set on reaching Syria regardless to do so only in coordination with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), so as to prevent operational mistakes and to avoid falling "easy prey in the enemy's hands." He emphasized that the fighting in Syria was characterized by urban warfare, which he said was more dangerous than warfare on the typical front, and that it was the Syrians who best knew the streets and alleyways of their own cities. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6119.htm. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. According to the pro-Assad Syrian website "Al-Haqiqa (The Truth)," Syria's repeated claims that Free Syrian Army (FSA) members are nothing but Al-Qaeda and global jihad activists who arrived in Syria from various Arab countries was recently bolstered by jihad websites close to Al-Qaeda, which reported on the deaths of mujahideen from various Arab countries during clashes with Syrian security forces. One such website posted the pictures of four jihadis who were supposedly killed in Syria: Abu Al-Baraa Al-Sulti, of Jordan; Abu Hudheifa, AKA Fuad Khaled Al-Kuwaiti, of Kuwait; Abu Osama Al-Muhajir; and Abu Hamza Al-Shami. The website reported that according to estimates by security sources, roughly 1,000 armed jihadis had infiltrated Syria. On February 10, 2012, the Arab media picked up the story, publishing the names and photos of the four jihadis supposedly killed in the fighting in Syria. The source of this info, according to Alarabiya.com, is the Syrian Al-Dunya channel, which supports the Assad regime. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5786¶m=GJN. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject lineHead of Human Rights Org. in Syria Speaks Out against Syrian Regime;
Al-Tartousi Calls on Egyptians to Close Suez Canal to Iranian Arms Vessels to Syria;
Bogus Reports on Massive Jihadi Presence in Syria
The following is research published today, from the MEMRI Special Dispatch Series,TV Monitor Project, and Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor.Mahmoud Mar'i, Head of a Human Rights Organization in Syria, Speaks Out against the Syrian Regime on Iranian TV
Al-Tartousi Calls on Egyptians to Close Suez Canal to Iranian Arms Vessels Headed for Syria
To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6120.htm.Spat between Senior Jihadi Cleric Abu Basir Al-Tartousi and Online Jihadis over Free Syrian Army
Abu Basir Al-TartousiBogus Reports on Pro-Assad Media on Massive Presence of Jihadis in Syria
The photos of "mujahideen" disseminated by the Syrian regime. Captions read: "Abu Al-Baraa Al-Sulti" (top right); "Abu Hamza Al-Shami" (top left); "Abu Osama Al-Muhajir" (bottom left); "Fuad Khaled Al-Kuwaiti" – "Abu Hudhaifa" (bottom right)
Sunday, 26 February 2012
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