Group "base" to take over the town on the borders of Syria, Turkey Activists contend that the organization "Daash" snatched from the hands of the town Brigade "Hawks Islam"

Activists said that a group affiliated to al -Qaeda seized a town in northern Syria on the border with Turkey after being expelled unit of the moderate Islamist opposition forces and arrested its leader , according to a news report Friday . And indicates the fall of the town Otma , on Thursday , a border crossing arms and Syrian dissidents , to the state of chaos in the ranks of the moderate opposition groups that are retreating before the hard-line units .

The rise of al-Qaeda in Syria has helped to change the calculations of international diplomacy , and weaker than the Western calls demanding the exclusion of Bashar al-Assad from power .

The activists said that fighters from the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant , a unit of al-Qaeda , overran the headquarters of the brigade Hawks Islam , a unit of moderate Islamic controlled the Otma , and established roadblocks within 48 hours, and detained Mustafa Wadah , head of the Hawks Islam with about 20 others of his men .

There have been a short battle at headquarters and also near the Turkish security center in the town , which overlooks the Bokolmes Otma and rugged terrain . The activist said on condition of anonymity that " the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant deployment of anti-aircraft guns at the intersection of the main road and took on Otma quietly ."

"The Turks did not prevent crossing the supplies to the town and its movement across the border fence as usual ."

He said that the place of " Wadah " is unknown, but perhaps he was taken to the border town of Dana , a stronghold of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant, where the group has established a Sharia.