[AlAhram] Al Qaeda's Syrian offshoot Nusra Front confirmed on Wednesday that their front man and veteran Death Eater fighter Abu Firas al-Suri was killed in a US air strike in Syria.In an online statement, Nusra Front said Abu Firas died in an attack on Sunday by an "Arab-crusader coalition" led by the United States, confirming an April 4 statement on his death by al Qaeda's North African wing.
Abu Firas, a former Syrian army officer discharged in the late 1970s because of his Islamist leanings, fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s and worked with al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now sometimes referred to as
Mister Bones...
to galvanize support for the fundamentalist Taliban movement, Islamist rebel sources said.
Abu Firas became a front man for the Nusra Front and was also a member of the group's policy-making Shura Council.
A Pentagon front man told Rooters on Monday that a US air strike on April 3 hit a meeting of high-level al Qaeda officials in northwest Syria at which Abu Firas was present.
While the United States is part of a coalition of nations attacking 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
in Iraq and Syria, it has also launched separate strikes on the Nusra Front group, notably in the northwestern province of Idlib.