[AnNahar] Abou al-Hassan al-Filastini, the 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...
(ISIL), who initiated the attack on the northeastern town of Arsal on Saturday, was killed.
According to As Safir newspaper published on Tuesday, al-Filastini succumbed to wounds he sustained during battles with the Syrian army in the Qalamoun, which borders the Bekaa valley town of Arsal.
Al-Filastini reportedly led an Islamist assault on the Lebanese army in Arsal after the arrest of al-Nusra Front official Imad Ahmed Jomaa on Saturday.
He is accused of kidnapping and executing several people from Arsal and leads around 100 fighters and the Fajr al-Islam brigade.
Jomaa, also known as Abou Ahmed Jomaa, hails form the Syrian border town of Qusayr and has confessed upon his arrest to belonging to the al-Qaeda-inspired al-Nusra Front.
The terrorist suspect is known to be a prominent figure of armed Islamic organizations, and he led the Fajr al-Islam brigade that fought in al-Qusayr and later in Syria's Qalamoun.
He recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
in a videotaped message.