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You still have doubts who is doing this unrest in Syria? I never had it.
Video: British-based preacher shown with armed gang in Syria - Telegraph
British-based preacher shown with armed gang in Syria
Amateur footage appears to show an influential British-based preacher that is leading an armed gang made up of more than a hundred Islamist fighters in Syria.
8:12PM BST 19 Oct 2012
In a video posted on the internet in the last few days, Abu Basir al-Tartusi can be seen on a balcony surrounded by Kalashnikov waving rebels after apparently capturing a hilltop village in the war-torn country.
Security sources believe that dozens of British extremists, possibly as many as 50, have travelled to Syria to join the fighting and some may have been recruited by Basir.
The security services are concerned that the brutal conflict in Syria could become a new Afghanistan drawing in young men who return to Britain radicalised and keen to continue a fight to spread Islam.
A source said the numbers were small but increasing and there were concerns about who they meet and the knowledge they could gain.
Basir, whose real name is Abdal Munem Mustafa Halima, was running classes at the al-Ansar Institute in Poplar, East London just months ago. He has his own website and his sermons are readily available on the internet.
The preacher has been based in Britain since fleeing the Asad regime following an uprising in the early 1980s.
He has been compared with fellow preacher abu Qatada and was described by one academic as one of the most influential and most prolific radical scholars in the world right now and by another as one of the primary Salafi [fundamentalist] opinion-makers guiding the ****** movement.
The video of him with his armed group bore the insignia Ansar al-Sham Call to Syria and appeared last Saturday, apparently filmed near Latakia, in the east of the country.
Basir has been a key figure in the ****** world since the late 1990s. While he has supported Islamists in Afghanistan and Iraq and advocates establishing Islamic states by force, he also believes in a covenant of security between Muslims and non-Muslims in the West and opposes suicide bombing.
He has also criticised Jabhat al-Nusra, a rival Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda, for failing to co-operate with the more secular Free Syrian Army, provoking a spat with another high-profile ****** preacher, Abu Mundhir al-Shanqiti.
Video: British-based preacher shown with armed gang in Syria - Telegraph
British-based preacher shown with armed gang in Syria
Amateur footage appears to show an influential British-based preacher that is leading an armed gang made up of more than a hundred Islamist fighters in Syria.
8:12PM BST 19 Oct 2012
In a video posted on the internet in the last few days, Abu Basir al-Tartusi can be seen on a balcony surrounded by Kalashnikov waving rebels after apparently capturing a hilltop village in the war-torn country.
Security sources believe that dozens of British extremists, possibly as many as 50, have travelled to Syria to join the fighting and some may have been recruited by Basir.
The security services are concerned that the brutal conflict in Syria could become a new Afghanistan drawing in young men who return to Britain radicalised and keen to continue a fight to spread Islam.
A source said the numbers were small but increasing and there were concerns about who they meet and the knowledge they could gain.
Basir, whose real name is Abdal Munem Mustafa Halima, was running classes at the al-Ansar Institute in Poplar, East London just months ago. He has his own website and his sermons are readily available on the internet.
The preacher has been based in Britain since fleeing the Asad regime following an uprising in the early 1980s.
He has been compared with fellow preacher abu Qatada and was described by one academic as one of the most influential and most prolific radical scholars in the world right now and by another as one of the primary Salafi [fundamentalist] opinion-makers guiding the ****** movement.
The video of him with his armed group bore the insignia Ansar al-Sham Call to Syria and appeared last Saturday, apparently filmed near Latakia, in the east of the country.
Basir has been a key figure in the ****** world since the late 1990s. While he has supported Islamists in Afghanistan and Iraq and advocates establishing Islamic states by force, he also believes in a covenant of security between Muslims and non-Muslims in the West and opposes suicide bombing.
He has also criticised Jabhat al-Nusra, a rival Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda, for failing to co-operate with the more secular Free Syrian Army, provoking a spat with another high-profile ****** preacher, Abu Mundhir al-Shanqiti.
