During his retrial on terror charges, extremist cleric Abu Qatada said al Qaeda’s two branches in Syria, the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, should stop infighting and offer “unequivocal submissiveness” to al Qaeda’s emir. “Our brave Jihadists in Syria should unite their ranks and be obedient to Dr. Ayman to prevail in the war,” he stated. Qatada also pled not guilty and castigated the judge. Shadi Al Bazayaah, a longtime Salafi jihadist, has reportedly been killed while fighting for Al Nusrah in Syria. Amman resident Mustafa Khater was sentenced to five years in prison for links to Al Nusrah. An estimated 2,000 Jordanian jihadists are said to be fighting in Syria, and about 80 percent of them are fighting alongside Al Nusrah.
