Please don't kill me!
on Wednesday the cousin of runaway Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir
...Leb Salafist holy man with the usual grouch against Shiites. Currently on the run, he seems intent on reigniting the Leb civil war...
in Abra, a suburb of the southern city of Sidon, reports said.
Abdul Rahim al-Asir was apprehended at the pharmacy where he worked, they said.
Al-Asir went into hiding following deadly gunbattles with the Lebanese army in June 2013. Indictments were issued in February against him and 56 of his followers that called for the death penalty.
The 45-year-old holy man, who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
, is still nowhere to be found along with pop idol Fadel Shaker.
Al-Asir teamed up with Shaker, a onetime prominent singer, when around three years ago he began agitating for Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
to disarm.
Al-Asir's supporters opened fire on an army checkpoint near the holy man's headquarters in Abra in June last year. The attack and the fierce festivities that ensued left around 18 soldiers and more than 20 gunnies dead.
The gunbattles concentrated in the area of the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque, where Asir was a preacher, and nearby buildings in Abra.