Hezbollah Takes Out Jihadist Heavy Weight In Syria

[Purveyor]

THE LEVANT – Fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah have killed a top jihadist from the Islamic State group in Syria who allegedly planned bloody attacks in Lebanon, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Hezbollah fighters had killed Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi in the Qalamun region in Syria, near the border with Lebanon.

He “was one of the officials in the Islamic State in charge of preparing suicide attacks”, the group said.

“He was killed by a roadside bomb planted by Hezbollah that detonated as his vehicle passed by,” the NGO added, saying three other jihadists were also killed in the blast.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television station meanwhile reported Iraqi’s death, but said he had been killed by the Syrian army.

“The Islamic State official Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi has been killed in a Syrian army operation in Qalamun,” al-Manar said.

“He was in charge of preparing suicide bombers and the cars used in bomb attacks including those carried out in Lebanon,” the station said, broadcasting a photo said to be of Iraqi’s bloodied head.

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[Scootaloo]

1. Feels weird to root for Hezbollah

But hey, this time, Hezbollah is actually doing what it says it does - acting as a Lebanese "home guard." someone's got to I suppose, it's not as if the Lebanese military is of much use for anything besides looking good in uniform.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

2. it sure does

so if we mostly stay out, and they have it out. then what ?


this was supposed to be a quiet month for news.
what about those kids on the border?

[flamingdem]

3. It's amazing the strange bedfellows created by Isis

It took that kind of insanity to see Israel, Hezbollah, Russia, Iran etc. on the same side!

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Are we in a de facto alliance with Hezbollah, Assad, and Iran against ISIS?

Talk about strange bedfellows...

We have been trying to overthrow Assad, "covertly" up until this year, but overtly now that Obama wants $500 million in arms and training for the "good" rebels. (Let's not even mention how the now strategically failed rebellion, in which we had a hand, created the breathing space for ISIS and the other "bad" rebels, and let's not even mention how ISIS originally formed as Al Qaeda in Iraq in response to our invasion and occuption.) Now, at the same time, both the Syrian and the US air forces are bombing ISIS targets.

And then there's the Kurds. We like the "good" Kurds in Iraq, but we don't like the "bad" ("terrorist&quot Kurds in Turkey (PKK) or Syria (YPG). But it was the "bad" Kurds who just helped the Yazidis flee over the mountain and into Kurdish Syria. They probably waved to our special forces guys.

There's so many levels of strange bedfellows to the Middle East these days the mind boggles.

[flamingdem]

5. Good explanation of the players!

But it seems like the Free Syrian Army is toast at this point. I sense that we'll let Assad do the dirty work. Not an expert in any way but thought an analysis was interesting -- give the Iraqi Kurds their state, not sure about the Turkish ones.. leave Isis where they are more or less for a Sunny state in Iraq, Shiites in Baghdad.. something like Biden proposed.

They know a lot that they're not telling us..

[CJCRANE]

6. Yes. Western leaders on vacation are just letting this play out...

The dominoes are falling but we won't see the pattern for a while.

[CJCRANE]

8. I don't know but it's clear that the absurdities of our foreign policy

are catching up with us.

Even more so given that we as citizens have almost no input on these decisions.

[JI7]

7. because ISIS are more like criminals/gangs than some political/religious

group.

they use the cover of islam but all they do is steal, kill, rape etc.

they ignored the whole israel/gaza thing. later they made some mention of it but it's hard to take seriously when you have been killing muslims all the while that has been going on .