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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on May 21, 2019, 04:40:07 pm
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Dutch police arrest Syrian Nusra commander on suspicion of terrorism
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Dutch police on Tuesday arrested a 47-year-old Syrian in Kapelle, the Netherlands, who is accused of terrorism and committing war crimes in Syria.
The man is accused of participating in the armed struggle as a commander of a “terrorist Jabhat al-Nusra battalion,†the Dutch police said in a statement in Arabic, English, and Dutch.
Formed in 2012, the Nusra Front was linked to al-Qaida and was one of the main extremist groups in Syria fighting the Syrian government and Kurds.
Read more at: https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/21daf43d-b869-4b9c-b3c5-296822c47f27 (https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/21daf43d-b869-4b9c-b3c5-296822c47f27)
If people are on twitter, they should probably follow the author's twitter account, Wladimir Wilgenburg; seems pretty friendly to the Kurd/American cause. Honestly, probably one of the most affluent journalist voices from over there.