Al-Zarqawi's brother-in-law: A mysterious end to perpetrator of Sham Liberation Group operations
Tuesday 22/January/2019 - 01:54 PM
Ayat Ezz
Iyad al-Tubasi, nicknamed Abu Julibib al-Ordoni, a prominent leader of
al-Qaeda, was killed in the southern province of Daraa, accompanied by two of
his assistants, namely: Abu Zakriya el-Mohandes and Salman al-Tunisi.
In the first week of January, the so-called Horas el-Deen or Guardians of
Religion, one of the terrorist organizations linked to al-Qaeda in Syria,
published an official mourning over his killing.
Although several Syrian websites, as well as the Long War network, a US agency
specialized in tracking down militants, reported mid-December 2018 the news of
his death while al-Qaeda did not announce his killing until this January
Abu Julibib was the emir of the Sham Liberation Group in Daraa and Damascus
before the group announced its separation from al Qaeda in 2016.
Abu Bakrib is the brother-in-law of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of
al-Qaeda in Iraq, who met in Iraq and Zarqawi sent him to Syria to establish
the Sham Liberation Group.
The elements that remained loyal to al-Qaeda, including a large number of
non-Syrian assets, formed the "Guardians of Religion" a few months
ago. They rejected the Al-Nusra Front step, which changed its name to
"Fatah al-Sham" and then to the Sham Liberation Group after having
joined other militant groups.
Al-Tubasi was born in 1974 in the city of Zarqa of Palestinian origin. He was
transferred to al-Qaeda and went to Afghanistan and then to Iraq, ending up in
Syria. During his reign, the Sham Liberation Group in southern Syria became
known before moving to northern Syria.
According to US reports, al-Tobasi played a major role in enhancing the
capabilities of the Syrian Liberation Army and its security apparatus during
his command in Daraa. He also managed to recruit many militants who carried out
a large number of assassinations.
According to the US Treasury Department, which included him on the list of
terrorist organizations and personalities, al-Tubasi was one of a small group
dispatched by "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," the leader of the
"Daesh" organization, to Syria in 2011.
His mission was to establish a branch of the organization in Syria.
At the beginning of 2016, al-Tubasi was the third person in terms of strategic
importance within the Sham Liberation Organization, where he managed the area
controlled by the authority on the Syrian coast. In the middle of the same year
announced his separation from the Sham Liberation Group because of its
disconnection with al-Qaeda and its leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
