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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Tripoli Young Man 'Abu al-Walid' Killed Fighting in Iraq
2015-01-18
[AnNahar]. Lebanese young man Hussein Haidar, who hails from the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, has been killed while fighting alongside Death Eater Sunni groups in Iraq.

The Tripoli News Network Facebook page announced on Saturday the death of Haidar, who is nicknamed Abu al-Walid", saying he was killed fighting alongside 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob...
al-Ahed website which is close to Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
stated that Haidar was killed when he went kaboom! in a suicide operation near an Iraqi army checkpoint.

Haidar is 18 years old and hails from al-Bahsa in Tripoli.

The same website said that he went to fight alongside al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
(Front) in Syria with 10 others from Tripoli, and then he moved to Iraq.

Many Lebanese fighters, mainly from northern Leb, have joined the jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

Jihadi recruitment in impoverished Sunni areas of northern Leb is on the rise, and black Islamic State group flags fly freely in some areas, reflecting pockets of growing support for the radical group.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Like he couldn't manage to get killed at home?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-18 03:53  

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