Al-Qaeda inspired militant group calls on Syrians to kill Assad
A militant Islamic group inspired by Al-Qaeda called on the Syrian people Monday to assassinate President Bashar Assad a day after the government held a referendum on granting him a second term.
Abu Jandal al-Dimashqi, the self-declared leader of Tawhid and Jihad in Syria, also urged all Arabs to topple their leaders, accusing them of being renegades, in an audiotape posted on a Web site. ''Our people in Syria, how do you accept to be ruled by the vulgar Nassiries (Alawites) ... rise up as one man to chop their legs and heads,'' al-Dimashqi said. Assad is a member of the country's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
