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Biography of the great jihadi leader, martyr Mustafa Badr al-Din, "Sayyed Zulfikar"

Name: Mustafa Amin Badr al-Din

Date and Place of Birth: Ghubairi, [Beirut], April 6th 1961

- In 1982 Badr al-Din worked on the training and formation of jihadi groups to confront the Zionist enemy.

- He is one of the most prominent mujahedeen who fought against the "Israeli" invasion at the doors of the Khaldeh neighborhood south of the Lebanese capital Beirut and was wounded during the confrontations. He was also the vanguard participant in the Ghubairi and Airport Bridge clashes in 1982.

- The martyr worked on the formation and training of military resistance groups to confront the "Israeli" occupation and expel it from the capital and suburbs.

- In 1992, he was handed the leadership role in the central military unit. He built military formations and planned many heroic martyrdom operations that included infiltrating occupied sites, planting explosive, and confrontations. Such operations forced the Zionist occupiers to withdraw from south Lebanon in 2000.

- He played a prominent role in confronting the "Israeli" aggression in July 1993 and forced "Israeli" Prime Minister Rabin at the time to admit defeat by Hizbullah.

- In 1996, during the Grapes of Wrath Operation, Badr al-Din laid the foundations for a new phase, forcing the world to recognize the legitimacy of the resistance and its right to defend its land.

- In 1997, he played a prominent role in terms of planning and supervising the Ansariyeh military operation.

- He worked on the dismantling of dozens of "Israeli" spy networks inside Lebanon.

- With the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, he was one of the first resistance leaders on the ground. He planned and led operations against the takfiri scheme, facing it across the Syrian territory, militarily and on a security level.

- The martyr leader carried on with his jihadi duties until he was martyred near the Damascus International Airport on 13/05/2016.

Source: al-Ahed news