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2014-05-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Wanted Hizbullah Commander Killed in Syria

[An Nahar] A senior Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
commander branded by the FBI as one of the world's most wanted turbans was killed fighting in Syria, residents of his village in southern Leb told Agence La Belle France Presse Tuesday.

Hizbullah has deployed thousands of fighters into neighboring Syria to back

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's army as he battles hard boyz who have been trying to overthrow him for the past three years.

"Fawzi Ayoub was killed fighting in Syria. His funeral was held in (his home village of) Ain Qana yesterday (Monday). Many people came to the funeral, to give their condolences to his family," a resident of the village said on condition of anonymity.

According to another resident of Ain Qana, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Beirut, "Ayoub was a leading Hizbullah commander in the Aleppo area" in northern Syria.

The FBI's website says Ayoub was indicted in the United States in 2009 for "willfully and knowingly" trying to enter Israel, Hizbullah's arch-enemy, with a fake U.S. passport "for the purpose of conducting a bombing."

Ayoub, who had lived in Canada, was tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in Israel in 2000. He was released three years later in a prisoner swap with Hizbullah.

Posted by Fred 2014-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top
File under: Hezbollah

#1 Hizbollah is really stretching itself if it is going to have a sizable presence in Aleppo.

Published estimates are that Hezbollah has lost at least 500 troops in past 2 years and at least 50 in just the past 2 months (about the same number of Iraq Shia militia have also died in these time periods)

Posted by lord garth 2014-05-28 00:52|| 2014-05-28 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 "Many people came to the funeral, to give their condolences to his family,"

target-rich environment

Posted by Frank G 2014-05-28 09:33|| 2014-05-28 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 An interesting analysis of force numbers here, suggesting that all quotes involving "an army of 12,000" are an entirely symbolic reference to that claimed number for Muslim armed forces in Hadith, and that Hisb'allah's entire fighting force likely numbers around 5,000.

In which case, 500 dead in a war that is perhaps half over is significant. Will they have enough trained manpower to shoot off their 12,000 Iranian missiles at Israel when the time comes?

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-28 14:03|| 2014-05-28 14:03|| Front Page Top

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