Shakir al-Absi
Shakir al-Absi ( Arabic شاكر العبسي, DMG Šākir al-ʿAbsī ; * 1955 in Jericho ; † uncertain: December 10, 2008 ) was the leader of the Sunni radical Islamic underground organization Fatah al-Islam .
al-Absi has spent three years in a prison in Syria since 2000 for smuggling arms and ammunition . He was a supporter of Abu Musab al- Zarqawi , the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq . Al-Absi was sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal in Jordan in 2004 for his involvement in the assassination attempt on US diplomat Laurence Foley .
On May 20, 2007, fighting broke out in the Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al-Bared between members of the militant Palestinian organization and the Lebanese army as they were chasing bank robbers. The fighting lasted until September 2, 2007. When the camp was stormed, al-Absi could also have been killed. However, the identity of a corpse could not be properly assigned to him because a DNA test failed. On December 10, 2008, Fatah al-Islam announced that Shakir al-Absi had probably been killed.
Web links
- Al-Arabiya: Fatah Islam chief may be alive: Lebanon officials
- Shakir al-Abssi at the History Commons
- Shaker al-Abbsi from Fatah al-Islam leadership
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shakir al-Absi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Leader of the Sunni radical Islamic underground organization Fatah al-Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jericho |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: December 10, 2008 |