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Deadly car bomb attack kills highest ranking Al-Qaeda commander in south Syria along with 9 other militants
[ALMASDARNEWS] Follow up information just released by opposition sources regarding a huge car kaboom that took place in the southwestern Syrian province of Daraa on Monday reveals that a top regional commander for the al-Qaeda affiliate group Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ) has been killed in the blast. Early on Monday, an unknown party carried out a powerful car kaboom against the al-Rubaii rebel checkpoint base in eastern Daraa province that was manned at the time by both Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham and Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... fighters. According to the latest reports, at least ten Syrian murderous Moslems have been killed and another 20 maimed as a result of the bombing. However among the dead is a very high-ranking rebel leader, one Abu Hamza Ghadiyah, a Jordanian national who was (until his very recent departure) Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham’s commander for all of southern Syria; four of his personal bodyguards were also killed in the attack. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-30 |
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