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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mastermind behind al-Lino's Assassination Succeeds Awad as Fatah al-Islam Leader
2011-08-10
[An Nahar] Fatah al-Islam
A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred.
has appointed Osama al-Shahabi as the new leader of the group after the death of its former leader Abdul Rahman Awad who was killed in an army ambush in Shtoura in 2010, revealed a Fatah source to the Central News Agency on Tuesday.

Confessions of two Fatah al-Islam members revealed that al-Shahabi was the criminal mastermind of the failed liquidation attempt against Fatah's Leb commander Mahmoud Issa, alias "Al-Lino", added the source.

The liquidation attempt took place about a week ago and was conducted by some Jund al-Sham members.

Shahabi also oversaw the festivities that took place between Fatah, Jund al-Sham, and Fatah al-Islam that broke out at the Ain al-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp over the weekend.

The source explained that Jund al-Sham and Fatah al-Islam have been harmed by the reconciliation between the Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Paleostinian groups in Cairo and the improved ties between the Lebanese state and Paleostinian Liberation Organization, as well as Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
' upcoming visit to Leb.

The source said that Abbas will stress during his trip that the refugee camps are a part of Leb and they will not be a "thorn in its side."

The Paleostinian authorities in Ain al-Hilweh have succeeded in withdrawing armed individuals from the camp after Sunday's festivities between Fatah, Jund al-Sham, and Fatah al-Islam.

Posted by:Fred

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