Abu Azzam - "The Godfather of Jihad" |
Kamal Hamami |
Friends,
assassination is a key instrument for al-Qaeda (AQ). Abdullah Azzam was Osama bin Laden's (UBL) mentor and the "father of global jihad". Some analysts, oncluding myself, believe UBL had Azzam assassinated because he was rival to UBL's leadership and the fact that Azzam wanted the Arab fighters to return home to their native lands and end their participation in the fighting in Afghanistan. He was assassinated on 24 Novemeber 1989.
Below is a link to the biography of Abdullah Azzam
"The Lion of Panjshir" |
Another key person that AQ assassinated was Ahmad Shah Massoud,
"The Lion of Panjshir". Massoud was the charismatic leader of the
Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He was assassinated by AQ on the eve of 9/11
by Osama bin Laden. The
assassination of Massoud is considered to have a strong connection to the September 11
attacks in 2001 on
U.S. soil, which killed nearly 3,000 people. It appeared to have been the major
terrorist attack which Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European
Parliament several months earlier.
I believe Osama bin Laden (UBL) ordered Massoud's assassination to
help his Taliban protectors and ensure he would have their co-operation in
Afghanistan. The
assassins are said to have entered United Front (Northern Alliance) territory
under the auspices of the Abdul Rasul
Sayyaf and had his
assistance in bypassing "normal security procedures."
Now, to the latest assassination. The CIA’s premier
fighting group inside Syria, al-Qaeda (AQ), has turned on the Free Syrian Army,
the group supposedly preferred by the United States to overthrow Bashar
al-Assad.
Kamal
Hamami, a member of the FSA’s Supreme Military Council, was meeting members of
a rival group “to discuss battle plans” when he was assassinated by the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Reports indicate he was personally shot by
Abu Ayman al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s Emir of the coastal region of Syria.
Louay
Mekdad, FSA Supreme Command Political Coordinator, said one of Hamami’s group
was set free to pass on the message that the ISIL considers the FSA heretics
and that the Supreme Command is now target in AQ sights.
ISIL
is described as an umbrella organization consisting of several groups composed
of and supported by the Mujahideen Shura Council, AQ, Jeish al-Fatiheen, Jund
al-Sahaba, Katbiyan Ansar Al-Tawhid wal Sunnah, Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura,
and others.
“Syrian rebels said on Friday the assassination of one of their
top commanders by AQ-linked militants was tantamount to a declaration of war,
opening a new front for the Western-backed fighters struggling against
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces,” The Globe and Mail reports today.
A
senior FSA commander said on condition of anonymity that his group will “wipe
the floor with them,” in other words the FSA has declared it will engage in
sectarian conflict with other mercenary groups attempting to depose al-Assad.
This is at best a dubious
claim due to the fact the FSA is largely ineffective in the proxy war against the
Syrian government. It is overshadowed by AQ and other Islamic groups. In recent
weeks, hundreds of its Western supported mercenaries have defected to al-Nusra, AQ and other Salafist
groups that have vowed to establish an Islamic state in Syria if they ever
manage to overthrow al-Assad and his powerful military.
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