By ROD NORDLAND
CAIRO — It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s — with one unsettling difference. In the background hang two flags of Al Qaeda, white Arabic writing on a black field.
“We are now forming suicide cells to make jihad in the name of God,” said a speaker in the video using the classical Arabic favored by Al Qaeda.
Those uniforms ARE NOT style of the Syrian muslims. Those clothes are called NIKAB, and are worn by UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait. While Syrian muslims wear HIJAB (half of them are not covering themselves at all).