Hassan al-Laqqis: Difference between revisions
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({{Lang-ar|لواء أحرار السنة بعلبك}} ), claimed responsibility for the attack in a message on Twitter. The claim could not be verified. Hezbollah on the other hand claimed Israel was responsible for the assassination.<ref name=reuters>{{cite news|http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/04/us-lebanon-hezbollah-killing-idUSBRE9B306S20131204|author1=Laila Bassam|author2=Dominic Evans|title=Hezbollah says commander killed in Beirut, blames Israel|publisher=[[Reuters]]|date=December 4, 2013|accessdate=December 4, 2013}}</ref> Israel has denied any involvement in the matter. |
({{Lang-ar|لواء أحرار السنة بعلبك}} ), claimed responsibility for the attack in a message on Twitter. The claim could not be verified. Hezbollah on the other hand claimed Israel was responsible for the assassination.<ref name=reuters>{{cite news|http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/04/us-lebanon-hezbollah-killing-idUSBRE9B306S20131204|author1=Laila Bassam|author2=Dominic Evans|title=Hezbollah says commander killed in Beirut, blames Israel|publisher=[[Reuters]]|date=December 4, 2013|accessdate=December 4, 2013}}</ref> Israel has denied any involvement in the matter. |
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[[Matthew Levitt]], author of the recent book ''Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God'' and a senior fellow and director of the [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]]’s Stein Program on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence stated that there is “no question, he is important” and that he was Hezbollah’s chief military procurement officer. He believes that Laqqis was killed in retaliation for Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria.<ref>http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Who-killed-Laqqis-and-why-334030</ref> |
[[Matthew Levitt]], author of the recent book ''Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God'' and a senior fellow and director of the [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]]’s Stein Program on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence stated that there is “no question, he is important” and that he was Hezbollah’s chief military procurement officer. He believes that Laqqis was killed in retaliation for Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria.<ref name=jp>{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Who-killed-Laqqis-and-why-334030|author=Ariel Ben Solomon|title=Who killed top Hezbollah military commander Laqqis and why?|publisher=''[[Jerusalem Post]''|date=December 5, 2013|accessdate=December 5, 2013}}</ref</ref> |
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Laqqis had served most of his life in the group's military service since its first days of inception in the 1980s until his murder. At the time of his killing he served in several battles inside Syria<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/23051d1e-5cf6-11e3-a558-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2mYF7fGcT|author1=Martin Chulov|author2=Harriet Sherwood|title=Hezbollah suffers heaviest blow in years as commander is shot dead in Beirut|publisher=''[[The Guardian]]''|date=December 4, 2013|accessdate=December 5, 2013}}</ref> and very close to the group's leader [[Hassan Nasrallah]]. He had also reportedly lost a son during the [[2006 Lebanon War|2006 Lebanese War]]. |
Laqqis had served most of his life in the group's military service since its first days of inception in the 1980s until his murder. At the time of his killing he served in several battles inside Syria<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/23051d1e-5cf6-11e3-a558-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2mYF7fGcT|author1=Martin Chulov|author2=Harriet Sherwood|title=Hezbollah suffers heaviest blow in years as commander is shot dead in Beirut|publisher=''[[The Guardian]]''|date=December 4, 2013|accessdate=December 5, 2013}}</ref> and very close to the group's leader [[Hassan Nasrallah]]. He had also reportedly lost a son during the [[2006 Lebanon War|2006 Lebanese War]]. |
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Hassan al-Laqqis (Arabic: حسان اللقيس ) (died 4 December 2013) was a military commander of Hezbollah, a major Shi'a Islamic militant group in Lebanon. He was killed in an assassination when reportedly a number of gunmen shot him in the head from close range as he arrived at his home at around midnight of 3–4 December 2013 local Beirut time in the Hadath region, a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
A previously unknown Lebanese militant Sunni group, "Ahrar al-Sunna Baalbek Brigade" (Arabic: لواء أحرار السنة بعلبك ), claimed responsibility for the attack in a message on Twitter. The claim could not be verified. Hezbollah on the other hand claimed Israel was responsible for the assassination.[1] Israel has denied any involvement in the matter.
Matthew Levitt, author of the recent book Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God and a senior fellow and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Stein Program on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence stated that there is “no question, he is important” and that he was Hezbollah’s chief military procurement officer. He believes that Laqqis was killed in retaliation for Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria.[2]
Laqqis had served most of his life in the group's military service since its first days of inception in the 1980s until his murder. At the time of his killing he served in several battles inside Syria[3] and very close to the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah. He had also reportedly lost a son during the 2006 Lebanese War.
References
- ^ Laila Bassam; Dominic Evans (December 4, 2013). "Hezbollah says commander killed in Beirut, blames Israel". Reuters.
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- ^ Martin Chulov; Harriet Sherwood (December 4, 2013). "Hezbollah suffers heaviest blow in years as commander is shot dead in Beirut". The Guardian. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
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