Syria

Al-Nusra Front terrorists are foreign citizens

934089_orig Armed men from the Balkan Peninsula earn $600 per month to join Al-Nusra Front in Syria and are fighting against the Syrian army.
According to a report by Al-Alam on Tuesday, dozens of terrorists from Balkan have been killed in Syria, away from home. Moaz Sabik, one of the terrorists was killed near Aleppo, but his family were told about his death in their house in a small village near Bosnian border.

All his family knows about his death is that he was a member of a group which fought the Syrian army.

The monthly payment of the gunmen in Syria, some paid with the financial supports of human rights agencies and organizations, equals 600 dollars.

Ilias Sabik, Moaz’s brother said in an interview with Bosnian media that his brother left Sarajevo for Istanbul last March and two young men from Zenica and Kakanj accompanied him. According to local reports, Moaz was one of the 52 people who were deployed to Syria.

Reports suggest that volunteers from Bosnia gathered in Antioch and illegally crossed Bab al-Hawa to enter Syria.

Over 300 people from Balkan Peninsula, with Bosnian, Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian nationalities, are estimated to be fighting in Syria.

These volunteers gather once gain this time in Sarmada town inside Syria so that they can be trained to join the militia, the Free Syrian Army; however most of them join the Taliban-linked terrorist group, Al-Nusra front.

Extremist Salafis in Bosnia support aid-providing organizations in the Arab world, particularly Saudi Arabia, where Wahabbis and Salafis hold strong ties.

An ex top Bosnian official with the Information and Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina said: “37 year-old Bajro Ikanović is one of the people who sends Bosnian volunteers to Syria.”

In 2007 Sarajevo court sentenced Bajro Ikanović on charges of involvement in terrorists attack to 8 years in prison. Explosives were discovered in his home in Hadžići, near Sarajevo.

Moaz Sabik was not the only Balkan victim; in May, two other young men from Novi Pazar, Serbia were killed in Syria.

A local who spoke on the condition of anonymity said: “Volunteers receive money for fighting Syria or other fronts, and due to lack of income sources and a 45 per cent unemployment rate in Sarajevo, this is considered a job opportunity.”

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