Talk:Jund al-Sham

ABC article accuracy
I wanted to see if other editors think the reference to the ABC article should be removed, since ABC indicated that its author was involved in article fabrication in articles on Kofi Annan and other figures.--Lastexpofan (talk) 00:06, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Could you provide a link to this controversy? AnonMoos (talk) 01:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Click on link #1, there is an addition to the ABC article refering to the controversy.--Lastexpofan (talk) 06:22, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * ABC news has disowned the article and removed it from their site. As its no longer available to even reference and its accuracy is questioned by the source itself, its not a reliable reference. Therefore I removed it. 174.46.28.58 (talk) 17:12, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Merger with Jund Ash Sham
Now, I'm not completely sure, but these look like the same group. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Different transliterations of the Arabic definite article... AnonMoos (talk) 19:50, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Arabic Translation
Jund ash-Sham means "Soldiers of the Levant" and not - NOT - "Soldiers of Damascus". This is just a misunderstanding of semi-literate Western journalists. It is true that the city of Damascus is often referred to in Levantine Arabic (Shami Arabic) as ash-Sham but the city's name in standard Arabic as Dimashq. In standard Arabic ash-Sham refers to Greater Syria or the Levant, including present-day Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon. Al-Qaeda-related groups often use traditional or historic geographical names, such as al-Khurasan instead of Afghanistan, Mesopotania (Bilad an-Nahrain) instead of Iraq etc. Jokkmokks-Goran (talk) 10:06, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

added cite
I added a needed citation; hope somebody can fix the formatting. Sorry. nobs (talk) 20:16, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

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Founding between 1989-1992 by al-Zarqawi
The article claims that the organization was founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi between 1989-1992. First, as can be seen from his article and various sources, he wasn't following jihadist ideology until he goes to Afghanistan (1989) and comes back to his homeland (1992). Secons, his biographies that are written by Jean-Charles Brisard and Fouad Hussain don't mention such an organization. The only source for that information is this The Washington Post article. On the other hand, another article claims that "...Jund al-Sham is believed to have first emerged in Afghanistan in 1999, established by Syrians, Palestinians and Jordanians with links to the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...". So I remove this content from the article since there's no reliable source or claim for that part.--Nanahuatl (talk) 09:13, 1 August 2020 (UTC)