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Al-Qaida in Syria warn of retaliation
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THE head of Syria’s al-Qaida branch said militants will attack the West in retaliation for US-led air strikes in Syria and Iraq.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama acknowledged US intelligence had underestimated the rise of Islamic State fighters.
US-led air strikes hit a natural gas plant controlled by Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria yesterday, part of an apparent campaign to disrupt one of the fighters’ main sources of income.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said planes also struck a grain silo in northern Syria killing civilians.
US-led strikes have so far failed to halt an advance by fighters in northern Syria on a Kurdish town: fighting raged between Islamic State militants and Kurdish forces near Kobani on the border with Turkey.
The United States has been bombing Islamic State and other groups in Syria for nearly a week with the help of Arab allies, and hitting targets in Iraq since last month.
Abu Mohamad al-Golani, the head of Syria’s al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, a Sunni militant group which has also been targeted by US strikes, said: “Muslims will not watch while their sons are bombed. Your leaders will not be the only ones who would pay the price of the war. You will pay the heaviest price.”
Obama, in an interview on Sunday, said US intelligence had underestimated Islamic State after he was asked why Washington appeared to have been taken by surprise when the fighters surged through northern Iraq in June.
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