'Foreign Islamists seek to turn Syria into Sharia state', Jacques

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'Foreign 
Islamists seek to turn Syria into Sharia state'
Foreign Islamists seek to turn into Sharia state

Syrian rebels prepare for an offensive against government forces in the northern city of Aleppo.
(AFP Photo / Achilleas Zavallis)

Around half of the rebel fighters in Syria are 
foreign Islamists who aren’t interested in toppling the Assad regime. Instead, 
they’re seeking to implement Sharia law throughout the country, according to a 
prominent French doctor.

The co-founder of the medical charity Doctors 
Without Borders, Jacques Beres, discovered some interesting information while 
treating Syrian rebels in the besieged city of Aleppo.

According to 
Beres, 60 per cent of his patients during his two week service in Syria were 
rebels– and about half of those were foreign. He says the fighters aren’t 
focused on the fall of the Assad regime. Instead, they have their eyes on a 
different kind of prize – implementing Sharia law throughout the 
country.

"It's really something strange to see. They are directly saying 
that they aren't interested in Bashar Assad's fall, but are thinking about how 
to take power afterward and set up an Islamic state with Sharia law to become 
part of the world Emirate," the French doctor told Reuters.

The foreign 
jihadists include Frenchmen who believe they are waging a “holy war,” claiming 
they’re inspired by Mohammed Merah, an Islamist militant from the French city of 
Toulouse. Merah killed seven people in March, in the name of 
Al-Qaeda.

"Some of [the patients] were French and completely fanatical 
about the future," he said. "They are very cautious people, even to the doctor 
who treated them. They didn't trust me, but for instance they told me that 
Mohammed Merah was an example to follow,” Beres said.

The Syrian 
government has consistently maintained that the uprising against Assad is being 
orchestrated from outside the country and is the work of “foreign-backed 
terrorists.”

It’s a claim that Beres denied until his recent two-week 
stint in Aleppo.

Beres spoke of treating rebel fighters from other Arab 
countries as well, but says his list of patients included at least two 
Frenchmen.

But the list of nationalities continues to grow – jihadist 
fighters from Britain have joined the fight as well.

The inflow of 
foreign fighters has even worried some Syrian rebels, who have accused them of 
being “too extreme.”

As the uprising enters its 18th month, the home 
countries of foreign rebels are worried, too.

Paris has expressed concern 
in recent years that French radical Islamists who have traveled to lawless zones 
would return to plot terrorist attacks at home. This was the case for Mohammed 
Merah, who traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan before organizing the Toulouse 
shooting.