HTS | “Al-Talli spreads confusion, encourages disobedience and creates cracks among our brothers”

In a statement issued today, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham has accused “Abu Malek Al-Talli” of “encouraging the disobedience and creating cracks among the ‘Society'”, referring to Al-Talli’s attempts of abetting HTS members to leave the group and join his jihadi faction. Al-Talli formed his own group just after defecting from HTS and joining “Fa’ethbato” Operation Room which comprises jihadi factions accused of “pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda”.

 

HTS says in its statement, of which the Syrian Observatory has obtained a copy: “brother Abu Malek Al-Talli has had a crucial role that cannot be denied in furthering the jihad. However, he has sought for a long time to defect from the group to form his own faction. We talked to him and absorbed his willing as possible, as we do not want him to split, and we managed to keep him with us for long. When he decided to defect from the group, we wrote to him warning about the dangerous of forming a new faction, and he told us that he would never do so, and that he was considering the options of returning to the group. Al-Talli has been still entrusted by the group with some tasks.”

 

“We have been surprised with Al-Talli’s formation of a new faction which aims, like the previous ones, to create cracks among the group, as the consequences of forming such factions are really well-known. We adviced him but he refused to change his position. Therefore, we believe that Abu Malek Al-Talli must be prevented from completing this way, forced to follow the rightness, and held accountable for his practices which have spread confusion, encouraged disobedience and created cracks among the group.”

 

SOHR sources reported earlier this morning, that a security group of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham encircled the house of the prominent commander “Abu Malek Al-Talli” in Idlib city and arrested him, at orders by the HTS general commander “Abu Mohammad al-Julani”.

 

Jamal Zayniyah, Al-Talli’s real name, had defected from Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham on April 7, 2020, then he formed a jihadi group and joined the jihadi operation room of “Fa’ethbato”. The jihadi commander is also known for his rejection of the agreements between Russia and Turkey on the “de-escalation zone”, as he announced in October 2018.

 

Al-Talli had kidnapped several nuns in Maaloula in Rif Dimashq, before he released them in March 2014, following a deal in which he received large sums of money. It worth noting that Al-Talli’s son was assassinated on October 25, 2017. SOHR reported at that time that Abu Malek Al-Talli’s son was shot dead by unknown assailants, while he was traveling on a highway in the countryside of Idlib city.