#ISIS supporters unsurprisingly tried to exploit the targeting to argue that AQ is infiltrated & that HD leadership is somehow complicit in the deaths of the hardliners in its ranks. They accused AQ “spies” of planting surveillance chips on the targeted members
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Meanwhile, hardline AQ supporters who had sided with HD dissidents against HD leadership took the opportunity to reiterate their attack on HTS: they argue that US jets flew from Turkey; HTS is on good-ish terms with Turkey, therefore HTS is complicit in the men’s deaths
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This is part of an ongoing argument by AQ hardliners that Turkey is being/will be used to eliminate jihadists in N. Syria & will use “moderate” groups to achieve that purpose
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But many jihadists are calling for restraint (re recriminations & suspicions) & warn that there’s a plot underway to get jihadists to turn against each other
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