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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Free Syrian Army commander dies in bomb attack in Turkey
2015-08-27
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A commander from the rebel Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) has died in a kaboom on his car in the southern Turkish province of Hatay on Wednesday, a news agency and two Death Eater sources said.

The rebel leader was named by all sources as Jamil Raadoun, the commander of Sukour al-Ghab, one of several groups fighting under the FSA banner. Raadoun had survived a similar attack in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in April.

The privately-run Dogan news agency said he died after explosives were detonated on his vehicle.

Two Syrian rebel sources confirmed the death. Residents said the blast outside Raadoun's home in the southeastern town of Antakya, near the Syrian border, shook nearby apartment blocks.

Hatay province Governor Ercan Topaca said the attack might be linked to "a dispute between Syrian opposition groups", state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Raadoun, who defected from the Syrian army early on in the four-year-old civil war, had been in Turkey for about a year, Topaca said.

Osama Abu Zayd, a front man for the FSA, said Raadoun's brigade has fought against both 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) snuffies in the northern province of Aleppo, and against Syrian government forces in central Idlib and Hama provinces.

"It is one of the brigades which the West classifies as moderate, but did not get training," Abu Zayd said, although he added that it had received military support from countries which oppose Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
, including anti-tank missiles.
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