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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
2013-07-25
Abu Ali Mahdi , the Hezbollah commander of one of the brigades of the of Abou El Fadl Abbas Ahmed Salum Battalion was killed in Homs Syria, where he has been fighting alongside the forces of the Syrian regime of president Bashar al-Assad against the rebels.

Hezbollah announced his death on Wednesday and said a funeral will be held for him in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, where he will also be buried

In the obituary Hezbollah stated that Mahdi died as a hero while on jihadist duty .
Posted by:Steve White

#3  You didn't know his dad, did you Scooter?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-07-25 05:33  

#2  Assad was trained as an eye doctor, not a military strategist. I suppose, considering everything, he's doing fair to middlin' as a bloody-handed dictator in the throes of civil war.
/snark off
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2013-07-25 02:58  

#1  killed in Homs

Operation Northern Storm which was supposed to be Assad's push to retake Aleppo, is being postponed again and again while Hezbollah troops are being used to mop up around the Damascus region and along other parts of the west. Meanwhile the anti Assad forces are consolidating their hold on the east and north
Posted by: lord garth   2013-07-25 00:21  

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