[AnNahar] Fugitive Salafist holy man 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...
will be appointed as the Emir of Leb by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a report published in al-Joumhouria newspaper said on Wednesday.
The daily said that ISIL will "soon" proclaim the establishment of an Islamic Emirate in Leb and appoint Asir as its head.
| Soon. Is that like, "Soon ISIS will conquer Kobane?" |
ISIL reportedly asked for backup from jihadists in northern Syria to help it in achieving its goals in Leb.
Asir has been allegedly taking refuge at the southern Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole since 2013 when his group engaged in bloody festivities with the Lebanese army in the southern city of Sidon.
Sidon's festivities were seen to be linked to the conflict in Syria, and have resulted in the death of at least 16 troops.
Judicial authorities have issued a detention order for Asir and 123 of his supporters, including Singer turned runaway Islamist Fadel Shaker, whose brother was killed in the festivities with the army in Sidon.
Jihadists from al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front and ISIL are entrenched on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.