Foreign Islamist fighters urge Muslims to join jihad in Syria
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DUBAI - Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the war in Syria in a new video released by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The online footage, titled "There is No Life Without Jihad", showed the five militants sitting in a rural area and holding rifles with al-Qaeda's black flag flying behind them.
"We are a State who is implementing the sharia (Islamic law) in both Iraq and Sham (Syria), and look at the soldiers - we understand no borders," one fighter said in English. A caption said he was Abu Muthanna al-Yemeni from Britain.
"We have participated in battles in Sham, and we will go to Iraq in a few days, and we will fight there, Allah permitting, and come back, and we will even go to Jordan and Lebanon, with no problems." (Reuters)
