Poison

The employees of the American State Department visit those who have agreed to come to terms with them, promising carrots while wielding the stick. The financiers too mobilize with their deception and traps, saying, ‘We want to help you, so do not give us any trouble.’ The fatwas and doubts follow up in quick succession. Shari’i politics becomes- in the eyes of some- mere unregulated politics. Thus Adnani exclaims, ‘The oath of allegiance was an oath of respect and appreciation; we obeyed them in external affairs and disobeyed them in our internal affairs!’ Another calls it an ‘oath of necessity’; a third one justifies, ‘an oath binding in a specific jurisdiction only’; a fourth decrees, ‘constants and variables’. As for us, we believe that the oath of allegiance is a Shari’i undertaking; binding in its nature, its violation forbidden. Our Lord (swt) says, ‘O’ you who believe, fulfill your pledges.’ As for us, we shall fulfill our oath; we shall neither wear down nor give in. Those who wish to absolve themselves say, ‘We want to avoid bombings… we want to flee from being designated as terrorists… the financiers have made it conditional upon us to wash our hands of those disliked by America, lest we too are designated as terrorists… we do not want the aid being extended to the refugees to be cut off… we will not be able to unite if we retreat into our shells…’ And so regionalism gradually becomes a slogan which people do not hesitate to raise, as if the West and the East, the Crusaders, Rawafidh, secularists, Russian atheists and Chinese haven’t already united against us!
Sheikh Ayman al Zawahiri

Gli incontri tra Nusra/HTS e i rappresentanti del dipartimento di stato di solito avvengono a Doha.  Al Zawahiri sembra riferirirsi a qualche incontro recente in Siria. Idlib ovviamente.
Si spiegherebbe l'enfasi particolare, posta da Lavrov qualche giorno fa, sul rapporto tra Nusra e gli americani.
Per l'America l'unico modo di rimanere in gioco in Siria è quello di appoggiare Hayat Tahrir.
Devono però rimuovere il nome almeno di Al Julani dalla lista terroristi.