’ISIL’ Commander of Sending Suicide Cars into Lebanon Killed in Syria’s Qalamoun

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The so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" [ISIL] commander who was in charge of training suicide bombers and rigging vehicles with explosives has been killed in Syria's Qalamoun region.

Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi was killed in a Syrian army operation on the outskirts of Qalamoun, Al-Manar reported on Tuesday.

According to Al-Akhbar newspaper, al-Iraqi had been ISIL commander in Qalamoun and was responsible, apart from training suicide bombers, for a number of car bombings that targeted Lebanese civilians in Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley.

The daily said he had "personally supervised" the purchase of cars from Lebanon before rigging them with explosives in Qalmoun and sending them back to Lebanon to be detonated. 

Al-Iraqi had fled Yabroud with a group of loyalists in March after Syrian government forces recaptured the town, Al-Akhbar said, before he was recently killed. 

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team