Terrorist group Fatah Al-Islam says its leader has been killed in Damascus.
The organisation was involved in a war with the Lebanese army in Tripoli last year. It was also accused of a number of car bombings in Beirut.
Their leader Shaker Al-Abssi was jailed in Syria many years ago. After his release he fled to Lebanon.
Now, it seems, he made it back into Syria – possibly during the fighting in Lebanon last year.
But the interesting thing is where he was killed – the southern suburb of Jaramana. That’s where a car bomb killed seventeen people two months ago.
The group says he was killed in an ambush by Syrian security forces.
(Photo: Jaramana, southern Damascus.)
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Orientalista
// Dec 14, 2008 at 11.45 am
Whoa…how was he killed? Haven’t heard about any of this in my hood – but I did just get back from Halab. Jeramana seems like a weird place for the leader of a Sunni takfiri group to be – it’s heavily non-Muslim.
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