"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

Lübnan Marunîleri / Yasin Atlıoğlu

NEWS AND ARTICLES / HABERLER VE MAKALELER

Friday, October 10, 2014

As Western Bombs Fall on Syria, Western Jihadists Defend Their War on Assad- The New York Times

The American-led coalition’s bombing campaign against Islamist militants in Syria has focused new attention on the hundreds of Westerners among their ranks.

In television interviews broadcast this week, American, Australian and Dutch citizens who traveled to Syria to take part in the jihad against President Bashar al-Assad’s government expressed bitterness at the airstrikes their nations have carried out against Islamist rebels.

In an interview with CBS News conducted recently inside Syria, a Somali-American who calls himself Ibn Zubayr explained that he joined the Nusra Front, an Islamist group affiliated with Al Qaeda, two years ago, moved by the plight of the Syrian people under attack by their own government. Nusra fighters whom Ibn Zubayr called “close friends” were killed in the first wave of American airstrikes late last month.