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Veteran Hizbullah Commander Killed in Aleppo Province
 [An Nahar] Veteran 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... military commander Al-Sayyed Khalil Ali al-Sayyed Hassan has been killed in festivities in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, media reports said on Monday. The pro-Hizbullah South Leb news portal confirmed the reports, describing al-Sayyed Hassan as a "martyr leader" who hailed from the southern town of Aitaroun. He was killed "performing his sacred jihadi duty in the confrontation against the mercenaries of blasphemy and Wahhabism," the website added, saying he will be laid to rest in his hometown on Tuesday afternoon. Media reports said the slain commander belonged to Hizbullah's first generation of operatives. "He had been a field commander in Aleppo since Hizbullah began its participation in the battles in Aleppo's countryside, where he shuttled among several fronts," the reports said. "Al-Sayyed Khalil took part in landmark Hizbullah operations against the Israeli occupation of south Leb," the reports added. Since Hizbullah joined Syria's conflict in 2012 to support  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's regime, it has lost several prominent members in combat. More than 1,000 of its foot soldiers have been killed in the Syria war, which began in 2011, compared to the 1,276 fighters killed during its 18-year guerrilla war with Israeli forces that occupied southern Leb until 2000. Last month, Hizbullah said its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed by artillery shelling carried out by "takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups" near the Syrian capital Damascus. Ali Fayyad, better known as Abu Alaa Bosna, who led some of Hizbullah's military operations in Leb, Syria, Iraq and Bosnia was killed in February during battles with 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.... group near the town of Khanaser in Aleppo. And Hassan Hussein al-Haj, a top Hizbullah commander, was killed in October while fighting al-Qaeda-linked fighters in the northwestern province of Idlib. A week later, his replacement, Mahdi Hassan Obeid, was killed during fighting in the same province. Another senior military officer, Fawzi Ayoub, a dual Lebanese-Canadian citizen who was wanted by the FBI on charges of trying to use a forged U.S. passport to enter Israel, was killed in May in Aleppo, reportedly in an ambush by Western-backed rebels. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-07 |
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