Asbat al-Ansar
Asbat al-Ansar , also Osbat al-Ansar ( Arabic عصبة الأنصار, DMG ʿuṣbat al-Anṣar 'League of Successors') is an extremist , Sunni - Islamist group in Lebanon .
Asbat al-Ansar consists predominantly of Palestinians , their operations center is the Palestinian refugee camp 'Ayn al-Hilwa near Sidon in southern Lebanon. The group follows Salafism , an extreme interpretation of Islam , and has ties to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda and other extremist Sunni groups. It fights by itself as anti-Islamic and pro-Western influences within Lebanon, and it is also directed against the existence of the State of Israel .
Its leader is believed to be Abu Muhjin , who was sentenced to death in absentia in 1994 for the murder of an Islamic clergyman, but is still at large.
The group, which has an estimated 300 active fighters in Lebanon, many are terrorist attacks in Lebanon since the early 1990s attributed to years, such as the murder of religious leaders, bombings of nightclubs, bars and fast food -Restaurants and an attack with a rocket launcher on the Russian Embassy in 2000.
The US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that Asbat al-Ansar "obtained weapons and equipment from Lebanese homeland security forces and militias affiliated with the Siniora government" . This is happening in coordination with the USA and Saudi Arabia , so that an intra-Lebanese equilibrium with Hezbollah should arise.
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- ↑ Frank Jansen : The enemy is everywhere: The terror network in and around Lebanon is an octopus-like structure - Islamists, nationalists and Marxists fight against Israel. Der Tagesspiegel, July 27, 2006
- ↑ Asbat al-Ansar: The League of Followers - The Partisans' League , globalsecurity.org (undated).
- ^ Gary C. Gambill: Islamist Groups in Lebanon , in: Barry Rubin: Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crises , Palgrave Macmillan 2009, pp. 131-154 (here: p. 147).