Syria rebels declare Islamic state in Aleppo

No surprises here.  The Muslim Brotherhood and it's traveling companions the Salafists continue to take over another country, thanks to plenty of help and encouragement from clueless Western governments. 

FROM BELFASTTELEGRAPH.CO.UK:

Syria rebels declare Islamic state in Aleppo

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
According to activists, nearly 40,000 people have been killed in Syria since the revolt began 20 months ago (AP)

Syria's increasingly powerful Islamist rebel factions have rejected the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declared an Islamic state in the key battleground of Aleppo.

The move highlights the struggle over the direction of the rebellion at a time when the opposition is trying to gain the West's trust and secure a flow of weapons to fight the regime.

The rising profile of the extremist faction among the rebels could doom those efforts.

Such divisions have hobbled the opposition over the course of the uprising, which has descended into a bloody civil war.

According to activists, nearly 40,000 people have been killed since the revolt began 20 months ago. The fighting has been particularly extreme in Aleppo, Syria's largest city and a major front in the civil war since the summer.

Salman Shaikh, director of The Brookings Doha Centre in Qatar, said the Islamists' declaration will unsettle both Western backers of the Syrian opposition and groups inside Syria, ranging from secularists to the Christian minority.

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