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One of the founders of Al-Nusra/Hayat Tahrir al-Sham was liquidated.

2024-04-08

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from a Telegram post by AssadStash
[ColonelCassad] Fell victim to a showdown between terrorists in Idlib. He was seasoned and had been active in terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq since 2003.

A well-known extremist in the region and one of the leaders of the largest coalition of militants was killed in Syria.

Abu Marya al-Qahtani (or al-Qahtani) was killed by Islamic State militants in the town of Sarmada in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. The suicide bomber blew himself up, killing him and wounding two of his aides.

Al-Qahtani was 47 years old. Real name - Maysar al-Juburi, originally from Iraq from the vicinity of Mosul.

He is a veteran of all sorts of "militant" and security organizations, and his career path in jihadist circles is quite classic for many "colleagues" from his generation: he studied at the university, ended up in a pro-Saddam paramilitary group, joined the police, and after the US invasion in 2003 joined al-Qaeda.

He is best known for co-founding al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria in 2011, a group called Jabhat al-Nusra, which quickly became the largest and deadliest of the Syrian war. Then Al-Nusra grew to the size of an entire coalition of groups, formally broke ties with Al-Qaeda in order to build its own project, and is now called Tahrir al-Shyam.

Today, part of the territory of northern and northwestern Syria in the provinces of Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo remains under the control of militants. Abu Marya al-Qatani held the position of deputy supreme leader of the coalition and head of the religious council there.

The murder of Al-Qatani immediately caused a lot of controversy between the militants. Not everyone believed the version about the IS terrorists, with whom the Tahrir al-Sham terrorists have been competing for many years. Some militants believe that Al-Qatani was removed as a result of an internal struggle for power in the coalition. He spent six months in prison on charges of treason and collaboration with Western intelligence services, and then he was simply released without explanation.

Regardless, Abu Marya al-Qahtani was a powerful militant leader, a veteran of the 2011 Syrian war, and one of the veterans of the Middle East's jihadist movement, with its roots in post-Saddam Iraq.

The earth is glassy bastard.

Rudaw concurs:

"The jihadist Abu Maria al-Qahtani was killed and four others were seriously injured... as the result of a jacket wallah detonating an boom belt in his guesthouse in the town of Sarmada," stated the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

Qahtani, whose real name is Maysar Ali Musa Abdallah al-Juburi, was brought to hospital with severe injuries and died there, Rooters reported, citing jihadist sources.

Qahtani, 47, was born in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
. He fought against United States forces after their invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2011, he moved to Syria and was a co-founder of the Nusra Front, an offshoot of al-Qaeda. The group rebranded itself as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) when it split from al-Qaeda and currently controls rebel-held northwestern Syria.

He has been under US sanctions since 2012.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility, but HTS has blamed the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) for Qahtani’s death.

Last year, Qahtani was detained by HTS on the charge of communicating with "hostile parties," according to SOHR. He was released last month.

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