“Go and ask the people in the streets whether there a liberated town or city anywhere in Syria that is ruled as efficiently as this one,” he boasted. “There is electricity, water and bread and security. Inshallah, this will be the nucleus of a new Syrian Islamic caliphate!”
The commander talked about the services al-Nusra is providing to Shadadi’s residents. First, there is food: 225 sacks of wheat, baked into bread and delivered to the people every day through special teams in each neighbourhood. Then there is free electricity and water, which run all day throughout the town. There is also al-Nusra healthcare, provided from a small clinic that treats all comers, regardless of whether they have sworn allegiance to the emirate or not. Finally, there is order and the promise of swift justice, delivered according to sharia law by a handful of newly appointed judges.
“All this wealth,” he said, “is for the Muslims.”
pakistanis can only dream of this type of justice, security, health, electricity and water provided by their geeder league and sheeple party.
good for the people of syria who are fighting the pharaoh and his hezboshaytan army.
[Behind the battle lines](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22847540)
Dozens of Syrians in Aleppo have staged protests against a rebel siege of government-held areas in the city, residents have said.
Rebels stopped supplies from entering western parts of the city in a bid to weaken the supply routes for President Bashar al-Assad's forces, they add.
They say the blockade has led to severe food and medicine shortages.
The World Health Organization has urged Syrians to protect a convoy carrying medical supplies to the city.
One protester was reportedly shot dead at a demonstration on Tuesday, according to the UK-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The group says it was not clear whether the man was shot by rebels trying to disperse the protest or killed by army sniper fire, as some civilians claimed.
Amateur footage uploaded onto YouTube shows dozens of men in civilian dress purportedly protesting at a checkpoint in the rebel-held district of Bustan al-Qasr, chanting: "The people want an end to the blockade."
The protest is disrupted by several men in black, one carrying a gun, followed by the sound of gunfire.
‘Medieval conditions’ Many Aleppo residents are angered by the rebel blockade, which has created shortages of basics such as bread and flour, and hiked up food prices in several neighbourhoods at the start of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Aid agencies have voiced concern over the growing humanitarian crisis in the city after months of fierce fighting, with the World Health Organization calling on both sides of the conflict to guarantee the safety of a convoy carrying medical supplies to Aleppo.
Government forces continue their offensive on rebel-held areas of Homs
The UN’s World Food Programme said it delivered food rations to more than 250,000 people ahead of the start of fasting. However, it also said that their aid shipments had been blocked by both sides across the country in recent months.
In Damascus, Syrian foreign ministry officials promised to increase efforts “to send urgent humanitarian aid to Aleppo province” after meeting UN representatives to discuss the crisis.
Residents in Homs are living under similar conditions, as government forces close in on some of the last remaining rebel positions there.
The government says it is focusing its campaign on the northern district of Khalidiya to root out “foreign subversion and domestic terrorism”.
One activist told the BBC that hundreds of families were living in “medieval conditions”, with no electricity or running water.
Meanwhile, rebel fighters in Khalidiya are becoming increasingly desperate, says the BBC’s Paul Wood.
They have uploaded amateur videos of themselves wearing suicide belts, saying these are their only weapons now.
Most of Homs has been recaptured by government troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The UN says more than 90,000 people have been killed in Syria - with a further 1.7 million forced to seek shelter in neighbouring countries.
Re: How Syria's mould-breaking al-Nusra Front is winning hearts and minds
There are two sides to the same picture. Besides according to the first post the rebels are providing free electricity and water to the residents. Is it possible to run cities like this in the long run?
Re: How Syria's mould-breaking al-Nusra Front is winning hearts and minds
The war in Syria is the muslims v everyone else including russia, iran and US.
The Obama mafia have turned a blind eye to syria for more than 2 years anyone with political awareness knows assad has been beneficial for the yanks in many ways Syrian regime tortured people for america, they have made peace with the zionist cancer of israel why would the yanks want him out?
Re: How Syria's mould-breaking al-Nusra Front is winning hearts and minds
There are two sides to the same picture. Besides according to the first post the rebels are providing free electricity and water to the residents. Is it possible to run cities like this in the long run?
be a little practical. in war they are providing it free. give them a break.
Re: How Syria's mould-breaking al-Nusra Front is winning hearts and minds
be a little practical. in war they are providing it free. give them a break.
are you on the nusairee side?
In the beginning I had a soft corner for Syrian opposition, now I don't care. Both sides are the same. The two sides involved in this war Saudis and Iran have destroyed the whole Muslim world. Syria is just one of the theatres where salafists (Saudi) and Iran are fighting for control.
Re: How Syria’s mould-breaking al-Nusra Front is winning hearts and minds
Only kharijiites or nasibis would support extremist like nusra.
Even FSA is declaring war on them.
Al Qaida attack is
Beirut: The assassination of a top Free Syrian Army commander by militants linked to Al Qaida is tantamount to a declaration of war, FSA rebels on Friday, opening a new front between Western-backed forces and Islamists in Syria’s civil war.
