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Jordan Air Force Captain Turned Jihadist Killed in Syria
2014-08-20
[AnNahar] A Jordanian air force captain who joined jihadists in Syria to fight against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's forces was killed in battle on Tuesday, a Salafist source said.

Ahmad Atallah Shbeib al-Majali reportedly deserted to fight alongside Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian franchise of Al-Qaeda, before joining the krazed killer Islamic State group.

"He was martyred Tuesday" in Hasakeh, northeastern Syria, said the source, who declined to be identified.

"His family announced his death and will be receiving congratulations at their home in Karak," southern Jordan, the source added.

He also said that another Jordanian jihadist was also killed in Syria the same day.

In July 2013, Majali's family told Agence La Belle France Presse that the air force captain took leave from his unit and traveled to Syria via Turkey to join rebels fighting to oust the regime.

Jordanian Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
have said there were more than 500 jihadists from the country in Syria.

On Tuesday, a monitoring group said the Islamist State has more than 50,000 fighters in Syria and had recruited 6,000 last month alone.

"The number of IS fighters has passed 50,000 in Syria, including 20,000 non-Syrians," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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