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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front
source re following:

Jabat an Nusra means:   'al-Nusra Front'

Al-Nusra Front is described as a Sunni Fundamentalist 'Salafi Jihaddist' organistion - for specifics see here.

Wikipedia indicates that:

In 2011, Salafi jihadists were actively involved with protests against King Abdullah II of Jordan, and the kidnapping followed by a swift murder of Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Salafist jihadists groups include Al Qaeda ... [as above here]

Caucasus Emirate

In the North Caucasus region of Russia, the Caucasus Emirate retains a hard-line Salafist-takfiri jihadist ideology:

Tawhid / Monotheism in Islam

Reject practice of the following:

• Shirk [idolatry]
• taqlid [belief in fundamentals of faith with own insight]
• Ijtihad [independent reasoning interpretation of Islamic law] 
• Bid'ah [newly invented beliefs or action]

Endorse:

Complete separation between Muslim and Non-Muslim

by propagating Al Wala' Wal Bara' :

[No idea what this is.  Relates to 'one hand' pleasing to the Messenger and the 'other hand' (ie non believers)  is not.]

and declaring takfir 

[excommunication - unbeliever or kafir (infidel)] 

against any Muslim who is a mushrik (polytheist) and does not return to the observance of tawhid [doctrine of oneness .. monotheism/Islam]

and the strict literal interpretation of the Quran and the Sunnah 

["Sunnah is the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and interpretations of the Quran"]  ...

SYRIA

In Syria, the group Jabhat al-Nusra has been described as possessing "a hard-line Salafi-Jihadist ideology" and being one of "the most effective" groups fighting the regime.

[source - wikipedia - as above]
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Seems like big news.

But unsure whether to post this or not, for two reasons:

1.  Could not see news report apart from Twitter, so maybe it's a hoax?
2.  Group sounds a really scary to me, to be honest.