They appear to be members of Jabhat Al Nusra, a Jihadist group which claims to have carried out several sucide bombings and IED attacks in Syria, an assertion it supported by circulating video of bomb attacks on Jihadist websites.
The group recently won support from a prominent Salafist cleric who called on all able Muslims to join them so as to bring about the implementation of Sharia in Syria:
"The Salafi-jihadi website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad published a fatwa by senior Salafi-jihadi cleric Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti, dated March 6, 2012, in which he called on all capable Muslims to join the ranks of the Syrian jihadi group Jabhat Al-Nusra Li-Ahl Al-Sham (“The Front for the Defense of the Syrian People”). He said that considering the Syrian regime’s brutality and lack of restraint, and the fact that victory was only possible with the help of Allah, the Muslims must adhere to Islam and rally around the mujahideen who hoist the banner of the shari’a."
The fact that the Syrian insurgents have such strong support from the Jihadist world and count several Wahabi and Salafist clerics (one of whom called for the dismembering of Christians) as their spiritual leaders underlines the fact that the Syrian insurgency is a fully fledged Jihadist movement which could hardly be any more far removed from the positive portrayal they receieve in much of the Western media.
Note one Al Qaeda flag in the background for the second set of militants and another animated Jihadist banner flying in the corner of the video.
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