"Some members [of al-Nusra] claimed responsibility for Monday's attack at Aleppo University that left 87 people dead and hundreds of wounded."
"'Syria . . . will be an Islamic and Sharia state,'" said [al-Nusra fighter] Khattab, who has little knowledge of Arabic but fought in Afghanistan. "'We will not accept anything else. Democracy and secularism are completely rejected.'
"[H]e warned anyone who might stand in the way. "We will fight them,' he said, "even if they are among the revolutionaries'". (Asia Times)
"As Bill Neely, the international editor of Britain's ITV news, commented: "The obvious question is why would a government warplane attack a government university in a government held area of the country's biggest city? There is no logical answer. There was no threat at the university at the time to the army.'
"Neely noted that the hesitancy of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to describe the attack as a war crime was bound up with the likelihood that the bombings were carried out by the Syrian opposition, which is backed by the "international community.'
"In an interview with the BBC, Abu Lokman, an emir and senior Al-Nusra commander, spelled out the group's reactionary ideology and political program. People here are fed up with socialist and secular regimes," he said. "They are all looking forward to an Islamic state. It is impossible there could be anything else in Syria.'" (WSWS)
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