Free Syrian Army rebels defect to Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra

[Bosonic]

2. Sure, it's not like they actually came out and said that

Oh...

Syrian rebels slam al-Nusra over Qaeda pledge

A decision by the head of al-Nusra Front to pledge allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has prompted unprecedented criticism from some of Syria’s Islamist rebel brigades.

Until now, rebels had sought to bury their differences with al-Nusra, reluctant to jeopardize ties with a force that is militarily superior to most of the country’s rebel factions.

But an announcement this week by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, claiming al-Nusra as part of its network, and a pledge of allegiance from al-Nusra’s chief to Zawahiri have prompted rare direct and public criticism.

“When we in Syria launched our jihad (holy war) against the sectarian regime... we did not do so for the sake of any allegiance to a man here or another there,” the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front, an umbrella group of rebel brigades, said in a statement on Thursday.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/14/Syrian-rebels-slam-al-Nusra-over-Qaeda-pledge.html