Rebels Kill Top Syrian Intelligence Officer

Arutz Sheva ^ | Friday, October 18, 2013 | Elad Benari

[SunkenCiv]

Syrian rebels have killed a top intelligence officer in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Syrian state media said on Thursday, according to AFP...

Jamaa was head of military intelligence in the province, where the regime has been battling armed opposition fighters seeking to overthrow President Bashar Al-Assad.

State media gave no immediate details on where in the province Jamaa was killed or how, but jihadist forums said he died during clashes with jihadist fighters in the city of Deir Ezzor.

Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights NGO, said initial reports suggested Jamaa had been shot by a sniper in the Rashdiya district of Deir Ezzor city, but there was no confirmation.

The group also reported fierce fighting between regime troops and rebels in several parts of the province, including the city, which is the largest in eastern Syria.

Jamaa was one of Syria's top security officers in Lebanon during Damascus's military deployment in the country between 1976 and 2005.

He was interrogated over the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri though he was not charged in connection with his death.

In 2006, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it was blacklisting him and another Syrian general for their role in supporting "terrorist groups" and over the presence in Lebanon.

He is believed to be from Jableh, a town in coastal Latakia province, a stronghold of the Syrian regime.

On Wednesday, Syrian rebels assaulted the regime-controlled central prison in the main northern city of Aleppo.

Abdel Rahman said the assault was carried out primarily by rebels from the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front and from another Islamist faction, Ahrar Al-Sham...

[SunkenCiv]

(Illustration) Syrian rebels take positions in Aleppo [Reuters]

[SunkenCiv]

Buh-bye.

[aquila48]

What’s Syria?

[Gene Eric]

>> Whats Syria?

I think some place Obama wanted to bomb a few weeks ago.

[aquila48]

Oh yeah... was it something about a red line that he didn’t set?

[Gene Eric]

That’s right, the red line. And something about hundreds of children killed in a chemical attack.

[Fungi]

Nothing good will come of this. Remember Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt? What has changed? Simple, a totalitarian secular ruler to an Islamist government. The problem is the religion and nothing will change for the better as long as those are the only two options. Islam is the problem, a false “religion” founded by a false prophet based on one man's desire to do what he wanted in the name of allah (and I have not capitalized it on purpose) no matter the consequences. It is unfortunate this will never end so long as we have 1½ billion fools worshipping a false religion. There is much more to this…..later………….

[DoughtyOne]

Hmmm, not all that intelligent after all.

[aquila48]

Got it - it’s starting to come back. Those government shutdowns played havoc with my memory.

[Gene Eric]

That makes at least two of us.