Asia Times Online :: Middle East News : An anti-US, anti-al-Qaeda voice is silenced: " DAMASCUS - Abu al-Qaqa (34), a highly popular and charismatic cleric in Aleppo who is famed for his anti-Americanism, was gunned down while leaving a mosque in northern Syria last Friday. The Western media have accused him of being the main sponsor of jihadis illegally crossing the Syrian border to fight in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003. Abu al-Qaqa was speaker of the Iman Mosque and director of an Islamic high school in Aleppo. He was the preacher who drew the
Middle East
Oct 2, 2007
Page 1 of 2
An anti-US, anti-al-Qaeda voice is silenced
By Sami Moubayed
DAMASCUS - Abu al-Qaqa (34), a highly popular and charismatic cleric in Aleppo who is famed for his anti-Americanism, was gunned down while leaving a mosque in northern Syria last Friday. The Western media have accused him of being the main sponsor of jihadis illegally crossing the Syrian border to fight in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003.
Abu al-Qaqa was speaker of the Iman Mosque and director of an Islamic high school in Aleppo. He was the preacher who drew the largest crowds and had the strongest, often enchanting, influence on his disciples. His assassin, described as "a man in his 20s" who had attended Abu al-Qaqa's sermons, apparently drove up to the mosque and fired at Abu al-Qaqa; one shot in the head, three in the chest. Several Iraqi men have been arrested. "
Middle East
Oct 2, 2007
Page 1 of 2
An anti-US, anti-al-Qaeda voice is silenced
By Sami Moubayed
DAMASCUS - Abu al-Qaqa (34), a highly popular and charismatic cleric in Aleppo who is famed for his anti-Americanism, was gunned down while leaving a mosque in northern Syria last Friday. The Western media have accused him of being the main sponsor of jihadis illegally crossing the Syrian border to fight in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003.
Abu al-Qaqa was speaker of the Iman Mosque and director of an Islamic high school in Aleppo. He was the preacher who drew the largest crowds and had the strongest, often enchanting, influence on his disciples. His assassin, described as "a man in his 20s" who had attended Abu al-Qaqa's sermons, apparently drove up to the mosque and fired at Abu al-Qaqa; one shot in the head, three in the chest. Several Iraqi men have been arrested. "
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