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Hizbullah Eliminates ISIL Emir behind Explosive-Rigged Vehicles in Lebanon
[AnNahar] An 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... in the Syrian Qalamun was killed in an attack initiated by Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Syrian regime forces. According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Tuesday, Abou Abdullah al-Iraqi is reportedly responsible for training jacket wallahs and preparing booby-trapped vehicles used in attacking several Lebanese areas. Hizbullah has been engaged since weeks in heavy fighting with gunnies positioned between Arsal and the Syrian region of Qalamun. Tensions skyrocketed in the area earlier this year with a major influx of refugees and fighters after Syrian forces backed by Hizbullah recaptured most of Qalamun. Despite the Syrian regime's advances, pockets of opposition forces, including jihadists from al-Nusra and the ISIL, remain in the area. Al-Akhbar reported that al-Iraqi had fled the Syrian Yabrud last March after Hizbullah and the Syrian regime forces seized control of the area. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the daily said that Hizbullah continued to pursuit al-Iraqi. The report pointed out that al-Iraqi "personally supervised the process of buying vehicles from Leb and rigging them with explosives in al-Qalmoun, only to send them again to Leb to use them in attacks." The newspaper added that Hizbullah also attacked a villa in Qalamun that was being used as a venue to prepare the booby-trapped vehicles. Later, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the news. He "was one of the officials in the Islamic State in charge of preparing suicide kabooms", the group said. "He was killed by a roadside kaboom planted by Hizbullah that detonated as his vehicle passed by," the NGO added, saying three other jihadists were also killed in the blast. In March, the Syrian army and Hizbullah seized full control of the rebel bastion Yabrud, dealing the opposition a heavy symbolic and strategic blow in the Qalamun region adjoining the Lebanese border. Hizbullah's involvement in Syria has prompted retaliatory bomb and rocket attacks by krazed killer groups against areas in Leb sympathetic to the movement. The attacks have mostly killed civilians. Hizbullah and Lebanese security forces have said many of the boom-mobiles used in those attacks originated in Yabrud. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-08-20 |
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