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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Abdullah Azzam Brigades Terrorist Killed in Bekaa Clash
2014-01-24
[An Nahar] The army said Thursday that a Paleostinian suspect who was killed during a clash in the eastern Bekaa Valley was a member of an al-Qaeda-linked group.

Ibrahim Abdul Mohti Abou Maaileq, known as Abi Jaafar, succumbed to his wounds in hospital on Wednesday, the army said.

He was shot after he attempted to flee a checkpoint the military had erected in an attempt to stop him.

Abi Jaafar, who is a member of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
, was in a black Chrysler when he hit a soldier at the checkpoint while trying to flee. He also opened fire on the unit deployed there, injuring an officer, the army said.

He was also maimed when the members of the checkpoint fired back at him. He later died in hospital.

The army said that it was searching for another suspect who was with him at the time of the incident but has escaped.

The army communique said the suspect had ties with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and coordinated with its leader in the Syrian area of al-Qalamoun that lies near Leb's eastern border.

Abi Jaafar smuggled jacket wallahs to Leb and plotted terrorist bombings, it said.

An ID in the name of Ahmed Omar Saleh was found with him, it added.

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades has grabbed credit for suicide kabooms that have targeted the Iranian Embassy
...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!...
in Beirut's southern suburbs in November.

Its leader, Majed al-Majed, was locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
by the army last month and said he later died at a military hospital in Beirut from a chronic illness.
Posted by:Fred

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