Posted on 09/28/2007 1:42:43 PM PDT by harwood
.." Agassi was known as "Abu Al Qaqaa"..
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More info? Killed by Iraqi tribes, SF’s or US troops?
Now he's just QaQaa..............
No identity on the shooter yet
Some of the comments are hysterical!
“Dunghill to God curse you!
Oh strange young Hamas ..
Only Tafragon between intelligence officer and fighter right ..! ! “
“A Syrian cleric suspected of recruiting foreign militants to fight in Iraq has been shot dead in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, his aides have said.
Sheikh Mahmoud Abu al-Qaqaa was shot several times by a gunman as he left the Imam Mosque after Friday prayers.
The gunman tried to flee the scene of the shooting, but was chased by a crowd and later arrested, the aides said.
Correspondents say Abu al-Qaqaa was a charismatic Sunni cleric with thousands of radical Islamist followers in Syria.
His anti-American sermons attracted a wide audience after the US-led invasion in Iraq in 2003, and his reputation rapidly spread.
‘American agent’
After the shooting, one aide to the cleric told the Associated Press that “terrorists” had killed the sheikh, whose real name was Mahmoud al-Aghassi, for his “nationalist positions”.
The one who carried out the assassination was a prisoner of the American forces in Iraq and had been released some time ago.
Another aide, Sheikh Samir Abu Khashbeh, said the gunman had told him that he had killed the cleric “because he was an agent of the Americans”.
“The one who carried out the assassination was a prisoner of the American forces in Iraq and had been released some time ago,” Abu Khashbeh said. “He is known to us.”
In June 2006, a group of militants killed while attempting to carry out an attack in the capital, Damascus, were found to be carrying CDs of sermons by Abu al-Qaqaa in which he called for US forces in the Middle East to be slaughtered “like cattle”.
Afterwards, the sheikh denied he had called on Syrians to go to war in Iraq.
Others have claimed that Abu al-Qaqaa was an agent of the Syrian government, who was used to appease rising anti-American discontent amongst the country’s Muslims.
Abu al-Qaqaa is said to have kept a low profile in the last year since he was appointed head of a religious school by the Syrian government and he did not openly criticise the authorities.
The Syrian government has yet to make an official statement about the incident.
Very interesting.
My septic tank is full of Qaqaa
Jihadis on a popular forum are blaming “Syrian intelligence” for the shooting.
” No identity on the shooter yet “
whoever it is, Murtha will have them arrested
“I love it when a plan comes together.”
Mossad? Shin Bet?
“Father of the poo-poo.” Too bleepin’ good!
I was originally under the impression that he died in Iraq.
Now with the info that he died in Syria opens the door for other possibilities, including Israeli intelligence. I think one can rule out the Syrian Mukhabarat. They only get nervous when opposition is directed against the Syrian Baathists. Qaaqaa apparently was directing his venom against the US, which is perfectly on line of Syria.
I think the suggestion that an captured terrorist working as an US agent is an intriguing idea.
I can sorta understand the shoe thing. Sorta. But,
““Dunghill to God curse you!”???? I’m lost on that one!
ping
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