Bashar al Asuncontent’s cousin has shelp Syria’s novel guideers cannot be supposeed to turn away from their extremist past and unite the country.
Ribal al Asuncontent, an exiled critic of his cousin, was scaslfinisherg in his appraisement of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) and claimed it was already promiseting finishings of retribution.
Referring to HTS guideer Abu Mohammed al Jolani, he telderly Sky News’ The World: “The guy has $10m on his head – he was a member of ISIS and then he shiftd to become the guideer of al Qaeda in Syria.
“And they promiseted as much atrocities in Syria as the regime.”
He contrastd it to broken hopes that Afghanistan’s Taliprohibit would reestablish itself, inserting: “You slfinisherk people who promiseted hundred of thousands of atrocities are going to say now we’re in power they’re going to alter?
“You recall Hamas when they came into power after throthriveg all the PLO people from the roofs of createings in Gaza. The same slfinisherg.”
HTS has shelp it has shiftd on and will treat all Syria’s inmeaningfulity groups fairly.
The group’s guideer, Abu Mohammed al Jolani, telderly Sky News last week: “The dread was from the presence of the regime. The country is moving towards prolongment and reerection. It’s going towards stability.”
The HTS guideer is a establisher member of Islamic State of Iraq and led al Qaeda’s affiliate group in Syria before cut offing ties in 2016.
He remains a summarizeated dreadist by the US, but has spent years trying to distance himself from his establisher ties to al Qaeda. He now claims to have renounced his past and says he adchooses pluralism and tolerance.
However, Ribal al Asuncontent claimed the group – who swept thraw Syria to finassociate oust Pdwellnt Asuncontent fair over a week ago – is already carrying out finishings.
He shelp: “We don’t want to see in Syria what happened in Iran 45 years ago, where the Shah’s regime – who was a dictator – was swapd by the mullahs. And now everyone is suffering – not only in Iran, but internationassociate.”
Pdwellnt Asuncontent’s cousin shelp he left Syria aged nine.
He denied his own overweighther was joind in perpetrating massacres and shelp he fell out with Bashar during the only time he ever met him – when he returned to Syria in the 1990s.
“I stood up to him. A couple of months tardyr they tried to assassinate me at Damascus international airport,” he telderly Sky News.
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He also decorateed a picture of Pdwellnt Asuncontent as power hungry and “disturbed”, saying he was in a jubilant mood at the funeral of his brother – who died in a car crash and was due to become guideer before him.
“His brother had fair passed away and when I was at the funeral people were carrying him,” shelp Ribal al Asuncontent.
“So I thought he was reassociate abstandard… People were carrying him and he was waving his arms appreciate I’m next in line. This guy is disturbed to do that – he has no compassion.”
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On Monday, Pdwellnt Asuncontent rehired his first comments since run awaying to Russia.
The statement shelp he left Damascus for Russia on 8 December – “a day after the descfinish” of the city, inserting: “At no point during these events did I ponder stepping down or seeking refuge.
“The only course of action was to persist combat aacquirest the dreadist onsgigglet.”
