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In the most dramatic clash, up till now, between international Jihadi fighters and the rebel Free Syrian Army, it was reported from “Idlib” that the chief of the so-called “Shura Council of the Islamic State”, an appellation previously used in Iraq, Abu Mohamed al-Shami al-Absi was abducted and assasinated inside Turkish territory two days ago. The killers, Jihadis claim, were elements from the North Farouq battalion of the Free Army.
Jihadi Sources claim the dead commander led the group of jihadis which took control of the cross-border check point of “Bal el-Hawa” from Bashar Assad’s forces two months ago. He had maintained good relations with security forces on the Turkish side.
Career: The slain jihadi commander, Mohamed al Absi, was a syrian family of Alep, though he was born (in 1973) in the saudi city of Djeddah. He had graduated as dentist from the university of Alep. After graduation, he travelled to Afghanistan, where he met, and admired, the infamous Abu Masaab al Zarqawi.
Mohamed al Absi went back to Saudi Arabia some months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was jailed by saudi police for one year, then liberated on condition that he would never come back to his country of birth.
Absi spent the next seven years in Sudan, where he was arrested in 2011
for obscure political reasons. He went on a hunger strike until he was liberated and told to leave the country definitively.
ذهب للسودان وعاش بها سبع سنوات وأسرته حتى اعتقل أشهر قبل أن يطلق سراحه إثر إضراب عن الطعام وعاد لسوريا قبل أشهر من الثورة.
Relations between the Jihadi group, composed of volunteers from Saudi Arabia, Kuweit, UAE, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, as well as from the UK and France, had been tense for some time and clashes had erupted over arms-smuggling and political influence issues.
Two days ago, as Abu Mohamed al-Shami al-Absi penetrated into Turkish territory, he was kidnapped by fighters of the FSA and later killed and buried.
While his full name has not been revealed, it has been confirmed that Abu Mohamed al-Shami al-Absi was a member of a Syrian clan living at “Tall el-Karama”, near Idlib. His clan is seething for revenge.