By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Abu Muhammed al Golani, leader of the al Qaeda group in Syria called al Nusra, gave an interview to Al Jazeera.
He said "We will continue our focus on Damascus and on toppling this regime."
Then al Golani emphasized -- "I assure you, Assad's fall won't take a long time."
Al Golani also called on the Alawites of Syria to put down their weapons and convert to Sunni Islam in order to save their lives. The Alawites are a breakaway from Shiite Islam and a minority in Syria.
But Assad, the Syrian president, is an Alawite.
Al Golani also had a few choice words for Hezbollah which is fighting for Assad and keeping him in power.
The point of the interview was to say that the tide of the war has shifted in favor of al Qaeda and the end is near. The end, for al Nusra, means the fall of Damascus and the ousting of Assad.
Despite the predictions of al Golani, at this point it is not clear if the momentum of the civil war in Syria really has shifted. Al Qaeda has had some important victories of late but that has hardly altered the stalemate that has been in place in Syria for three long years.
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