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2014-08-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Report: ISIL Emir, Who Led Attack on Army in Arsal, Killed in Qalamoun

[AnNahar] Abou al-Hassan al-Filastini, the emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL), who initiated the attack on the northeastern town of Arsal on Saturday, was killed.

According to As Safir newspaper published on Tuesday, al-Filastini succumbed to wounds he sustained during battles with the Syrian army in the Qalamoun, which borders the Bekaa valley town of Arsal.

Al-Filastini reportedly led an Islamist assault on the Lebanese army in Arsal after the arrest of al-Nusra Front official Imad Ahmed Jomaa on Saturday.

He is accused of kidnapping and executing several people from Arsal and leads around 100 fighters and the Fajr al-Islam brigade.

Jomaa, also known as Abou Ahmed Jomaa, hails form the Syrian border town of Qusayr and has confessed upon his arrest to belonging to the al-Qaeda-inspired al-Nusra Front.

The terrorist suspect is known to be a prominent figure of armed Islamic organizations, and he led the Fajr al-Islam brigade that fought in al-Qusayr and later in Syria's Qalamoun.

He recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
in a videotaped message.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-06 01:19|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top
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#1 Understand this is the first major Lebanese town that ISIS has captured (40,000 population). Given their simultaneous incursions into Kurdish territory plus the usual fighting in Syria/Iraq they are demonstrating an unusual span of control.

Posted by Jinetch Ghibelline6418 2014-08-06 16:24|| 2014-08-06 16:24|| Front Page Top

#2 * FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Commentary Magazine] ITS TIME FOR A [US] BASE IN KURDISTAN.

Author Michael Rubin.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-08-06 23:02|| 2014-08-06 23:02|| Front Page Top

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