Abu Hureira | Shehab al-Qaddour | Fatah al-Islam | Syria-Lebanon-Iran | Lebanese | Deceased | 20070806 | Link |
Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
Qaeda hard boy criticizes Hezbollah for failing to attack Israel |
2009-01-27 |
![]() Al-Rimi then proceeded to attack Hezbollah for failing to help Gazans during the recent three-week long Israeli offensive that began on 27 December. More than 1,330 Palestinians were killed and another 5,000 were injured during Operation Cast Lead. Thirteen Israelis were killed during the conflict. Proving that verbal ferocity doesn't make up for being undisciplined dishpits and piss-poor shots... "Didn't our brothers in Gaza deserve you launching, in their defence, one thousand, two thousand or three thousand rockets instead of these tears? " he said. "Is Lebanese land more valuable than the blood of the Palestinians? What is the difference between you and (Egyptian president) Hosni Mubarak who protects the Jews?," said al-Rimi. "Our community must know the truth about these facts and understand who is 'selling' our cause." In the video, al-Rimi appears next to the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Abu Basir al-Naser al-Wahshi. The video, entitled "From here we begin and we will meet each other at the al-Aqsa mosque," refers to Islam's third holiest site, located in Jerusalem. |
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Released detainees return to terror trail |
2009-01-24 |
TWO men released from the war on terror prison at Guantanamo Bay have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service has reported. One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shihri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official said. Three other men appear in the video, including Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, identified as an al-Qaeda field commander. SITE later said he was prisoner No 333. A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, declined to confirm the SITE information. "We remain concerned about ex-Guantanamo detainees who have reaffiliated with terrorist organisations after their departure," said Gordon. "We will continue to work with the international community to mitigate the threat they pose," he said. On the video, al-Shihri is seen sitting with three other men before a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq, the front for al-Qaeda in Iraq. "By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al-Shihri was quoted as saying. Al-Shiri was transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia in 2007, the US counter-terrorism official said. The other men in the video are identified as Commander Abu Baseer al-Wahayshi and Abu Hureira Qasm al-Rimi (also known as Abu Hureira al-Sana'ani). The US Defence Department has said as many as 61 former Guantanamo detainees - about 11 per cent of 520 detainees transferred from the detention centre and released - are believed to have returned to the fight. The latest case highlights the risk the new US administration faces as it moves to empty Guantanamo of its remaining 245 prisoners and close the controversial detention camp within a year. |
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Two ex-Gitmo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video | ||
2009-01-25 | ||
One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official told AFP.
A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, on Saturday declined to confirm the SITE information. "We remain concerned about ex-Guantanamo detainees who have re-affiliated with terrorist organizations after their departure," said Gordon. "We will continue to work with the international community to mitigate the threat they pose," he said. On the video, al-Shihri is seen sitting with three other men before a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq, the front for Al-Qaeda in Iraq. "By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al-Shihri was quoted as saying. Al-Shiri was transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia in 2007, the US counter-terrorism official said. The other men in the video are identified as Commander Abu Baseer al-Wahayshi and Abu Hureira Qasm al-Rimi (also known as Abu Hureira al-Sana'ani). The Defense Department has said as many as 61 former Guantanamo detainees -- about 11 percent of 520 detainees transferred from the detention center and released -- are believed to have returned to the fight. The latest case highlights the risk the new US administration faces as it moves to empty Guantanamo of its remaining 245 prisoners and close the controversial detention camp within a year. | ||
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Syrian colonel testifies to involvement in destabilization of Lebanon |
2008-10-25 |
Al Mustaqbal daily said the alleged Syrian colonel Firas Ghannam, under arrest before the Lebanese Military Tribunal, is charged with attempting terrorism in Lebanon. He revealed the involvement of Syrian Intelligence in the destabilization of Lebanon after they withdrew from the country in 2005. The daily pointed out that Ghanam said, while being examined, that the Syrian officer Georges Salloum ordered him to detonate bombs in the Martyrs Square on the eve of the first commemoration of former Premier Rafic Hariris assassination on February 14, 2006. He added that he didnt want to execute the order but only agreed in order to move out from Syria through Lebanon with the Tunisian citizen Mounir Hilal. They were both arrested 3 days prior to the commemoration on the Lebanese-Syrian borders in Bekaa with forged identity card and a hand grenade. The report said Ghannam also testified to "relations" he had with Shehab Qaddour, better known by the code name of Abu Hureira, a ranking official of the Fatah al-Islam terrorist group who was killed in a clash with security forces in the northern city of Tripoli more than a year ago. The military tribunal, chaired by Brig. Gen. Nizar Khalil, concluded its interrogations of Ghannam and Hilal on Friday. It is scheduled to convene on Feb. 20 to debrief witness Omar . |
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Mass funeral for nearly 98 Islamists killed in Lebanon clashes |
2007-10-05 |
![]() A Lebanese security source said the countries to which the militants belonged refused to receive their bodies, 'so we decided to bury them in this grave.' The buried militants included Fatah al-Islam number two, Shebab Kaddour, a Lebanese national also known as Abu Hureira, who was killed during a clash in Tripoli in August. According to Lebanese security sources, some 222 militants were killed and more than 100 others were arrested during the clashes that took place inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. 168 Lebanese soldiers were also killed in the clashes. |
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Evacuated families of terrorists unwelcome at Ein el-Hellhole | |||||||||||||||
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Families of terrorists evacuated from Lebanon camp |
2007-08-25 |
The families of the Fatah al-Islam terrorist militia battling Lebanese troops for the past three months, began leaving a battered Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday. "The evacuation has begun," the source said. "We announced a ceasefire to ensure the evacuation within a specific time frame." Witnesses said the Lebanese army told journalists to stay away from the area where the civilians -- 22 women and 41 children -- were to leave the camp. The civilians are said to include the wife of Fatah al-Islam chief Shaker al-Abssi and the widow and child of his number two, Abu Hureira, who was killed in recent weeks. He added that the army was processing the group before taking them out of the camp. A military source said the group would likely be questioned by the army command and any foreigners among them would then be handed over to their respective embassies. Anyone needing emergency medical assistance, particularly the children, will be taken to hospital, the head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. |
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Contact with north Lebanon camp militants lost |
2007-08-23 |
![]() Lebanese army helicopters launched six raids on Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared camp overnight. Intermittent artillery and tank fire continued to target militants inside the camp on Wednesday. Hajj had said on Tuesday that a representative of Fatah al-Islam contacted the clerics overnight on Monday, seeking a way out for the women and children who are said to number less than 100. The army said it had agreed and was ready for a truce that would allow the families safe passage out of the devastated Palestinian refugee camp. "We gave our agreement on Tuesday but have heard nothing since," an army spokesman said. He also said the army had detained a Fatah al-Islam fighter three kilometres (two miles) north of Nahr al-Bared on Wednesday. The man, a Palestinian, was captured by an army patrol on the coast after he had fled the camp by sea, the spokesman said. According to a source close to the negotiations, the clerics have drawn up a list of 50 women and 20 children, including the wife of Fatah al-Islam chief Shaker al-Abssi and the widow of his number two, Abu Hureira, who was killed at the beginning of August. Previous mediation attempts over the past three months by the Palestinian clerics aimed at securing the militants' surrender or the safe conduct of their families have failed. On July 11 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) tried in vain to evacuate 45 women and 20 children, all related to Islamist fighters inside Nahr al-Bared. The remaining militants, thought to number about 70, have been holed up inside the camp since May 20. At least 200 people, including 141 soldiers, have been killed in the deadliest internal unrest in Lebanon since the 1975-1990 civil war. Update According to Mohammed Hajj, their contact is Abi Salim Taha. Taha's cellular phone was not operational but service has since been resumed and he should now be in a position to receive and make calls. Hajj also stated that he sensed more flexibility on the issue of the surrender of the fighters of Fatah al Islam, when he last talked to Taha. According to army sources the logistics for evacuating the women and children have been completed. Women army soldiers will handle the evacuation with the help of the Red Cross. |
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Six militants, two troops killed in Lebanon camp |
2007-08-10 |
![]() The military control a large part of the camp and its vicinity, home to 31,000 refugees before the fighting, but Fatah al-Islam militants have been putting up fierce resistance. The army has now lost 136 soldiers since the battle erupted on May 20. More than 90 militants and 41 civilians have also been killed in Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war. Lebanese authorities said this week that a senior Fatah al-Islam military commander, Shihab Qaddora, also know as Abu Hureira, was killed late last month in a clash with security forces in the nearby city of Tripoli. There was no confirmation of when or how Qaddora, 35, a well-known Lebanese militant who had spent more than six years in a Syrian prison, managed to sneak out of the camp but he was at one stage leading the battles at Nahr al-Bared. Some local media reported he had fled the besieged camp by swimming for five hours. They said Qaddora was contacting sleeping Fatah al-Islam cells in Tripoli to prepare for attacks against the security sources. Fatah al-Islam, which split from a Syrian-backed Palestinian faction last year, has Lebanese, Palestinians and other Arabs in its ranks, including some who have fought in Iraq. It says it supports al Qaeda's ideas, but has no direct links with it. The conflict has further undermined stability in Lebanon, already crippled by a prolonged political crisis and shaken by bombings that have killed six U.N. peacekeepers and two anti-Syrian lawmakers in the past eight months. The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in 2005 marked an end to the relative stability Lebanon had experienced since it emerged from the civil war. |
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Abu Hureira, Fatah al-Islam's No. 2 killed by Lebanon police | ||||
2007-08-08 | ||||
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Lebanese army kills Fatah Islam deputy commander |
2007-08-07 |
![]() Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said Abu Hureira, a Lebanese whose real name is Shehab al-Qaddour, was killed few days ago by police in the northern port city of Tripoli, near the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared where Fatah Islam militants have been fighting Lebanese soldiers for more than two months. "Cabinet was informed by Interior Minister Hassan Sabei that Lebanese security forces have killed the Fatah Islam's No. 2 in the Abu Samra neighborhood" in Tripoli, Aridi told reporters following a Cabinet meeting Monday night. |
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Lebanon army urges Islamist extremists to surrender |
2007-07-21 |
![]() The officials, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give press statements, said no members of Fatah al- Islam had responded to the calls. The army has also set up security cameras to monitor the fighters' movements. Sporadic fighting continued Friday as the army resumed shelling the remaining positions of the al-Qaida-inspired militants. Fatah al- Islam militants retaliated by firing four Katyusha rockets that landed in a village a few miles away from the camp, but there was no immediate word on casualties, according to the state-run National News Agency. The militants have recently been firing the rockets on almost daily basis in what appears to be a new tactic to ease the army's pressure. A Lebanese teenager was killed and a young girl was injured Wednesday in rocket attacks on villages near the camp. A Fatah al- Islam militant had warned they would send suicide bombers against the army if it continued its offensive against the besieged Nahr el-Bared camp located on the outskirts of the northern port city of Tripoli. "We have hundreds of martyrdom seekers (suicide bombers) who were readied to go to Palestine but will instead blow themselves up against the Lebanese army if the battles continue," spokesman Abu Salim Taha warned in an interview published Thursday in a local newspaper. Taha refused to say whether Fatah al- Islam leader Shaker al-Absi or his deputy, Abu Hureira, a Lebanese whose real name is Shehab al-Qaddour, had been killed in the fighting. He put the number of Fatah al- Islam dead at 50. The whereabouts of Absi and Abu Hureira have been unknown since fighting began May 20. The military has said 111 soldiers have been killed since fighting broke out in the camp two months ago. The conflict with Fatah al- Islam militants is Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-90 civil war. At least 60 militants and more than 20 civilians have been killed in the fighting, according to the Lebanese government and U.N. relief officials. Absi may be dead In an interview on Friday with Arabiyeh TV a Palestinian spokesman said Shaker al-Absi, the leader of Fatah- al-Islam may be dead because he was shot in his kidneys and liver. This confirms some rumors that circulated recently in Lebanon. |
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