In less than two months, Syrian Ahmed Al-Shra has moved from rebellious leader to interim president, his Islamic group led an electric aggressive, which topped Bashar al-Assad.
Shara was appointed on Wednesday to lead the Syria for an unspecified transitional period, and is assigned to create an interim legislature after the disintegration of the Assad era and the disintegration of the Parliament and suspension of the 2012 Constitution.
Former Jihadi has left Abu Mohammad al-Jolni, who has passed his nomon de, trimmed his beard and donated a suit and tie to get foreign dignitaries since his outdoors on 8 December. .
Long, sharp -eyed Shara has given an interview succession with foreign journalists, presented himself as a patriot who wants to rebuild and reunite Syria, destroyed and divided after a civil war of nearly 14 years.
New Syrian officials on Wednesday announced disintegration of armed groups, including Shara’s own Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which lies in the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda.
Since breaking ties with al-Qaeda in 2016, Shara has sought to portray himself as a more liberal leader, and HTS has tonged his rhetoric to protect the religious and ethnic minorities of Syria. .
But Shara has so far pacified the misconception between some analysts and Western governments who still classes HTS as a terrorist organization.
‘practical’
“He is a practical radical,” political Islam expert Thomas Pierreer told AFP.
“In 2014, he was at the height of his fundamentalism,” said Pirate, referring to the duration of the war when he sought to compete with the Jihadi Islamic State Group.
“Since then, he has operated his rhetoric.”
Born in Saudi Arabia in 1982, Shara is a well -known Syrian family and was reared in Mazeh, a Upskale district in Damascus.
In 2021, he told us Broadcaster PBS that his name was the reference to his family’s roots in the Golan heights. He said that his grandfather was forced to escape from the region after capturing Israel in 1967.
According to the Middle East Eye News website, it was after the September 11, 2001 attacks that he was first ready for jihadi thinking.
The website said, “This was as a result of the appreciation for 9/11 attackers that the first sign of jihadism started coming to the surface in Jola’s life, as they started participating in secret preaching and panel discussion in the suburbs on the margins of Damascus on the margins of Damascus on the margins of Damascus. Was done. “
After the US -led attack in 2003, he left Syria to participate in the fight.
He joined Al-Qaeda in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Jarakavi, and later detained for five years, allowing him to be prevented from getting up through the rank of the jihadi organization.
Realistic or opportunistic?
In March 2011, when the rebellion against Asad’s rule exploded in Syria, he returned home and established the Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch Al-Nusra front.
In 2013, he refused to take an oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, who went to the rich of the Islamic State Group, and instead pledged his loyalty to Ayman Al-Zawahiri of Al-Qaeda .
A realistic, an opportunist for his opponents in his partisan eye, Shara said in May 2015 that he had no intention of starting an attack against the West, on the contrary.
He also announced that Assad should be defeated, there would be no revenge to take any revenge against Alvite minority, which stems from the President’s clan.
He cut relations with al-Qaeda, claiming to do that he could deprive the West for the reasons for attacking his organization.
According to Pierreer, he has since demanded a way to become a trusted politician.
In January 2017, Shara merged with HTS on rival Islamic groups in North -West Syria, which led to control over the health of Idlib province, which had approved government soldiers.
Under its grip, HTS developed a civil administration and set a glimpse of a state in the Idlib province, crushing its rebel rivals.
During this process, HTS faced allegations from residents and human rights groups who dared to dissatisfied, which the United Nations has classified as war crimes.
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