Zahran Alloush

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Mohammed Zahran Abdullah Alloush ( Arabic محمد زهران علوش, DMG Muḥammad Zahrān ʿAllūš ; * 1971 in Duma , Syria ; † December 25, 2015 in Damascus ) was a key leader of the Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) militia who fought in Syria during the civil war. The Jaish al-Islam in Syria was regarded as a powerful group of Islamists that controlled Eastern Ghouta , a suburb of the capital Damascus. He was first the founder and commander-in-chief of Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) and then founder and commander-in-chief of the Jaish al-Islam, which emerged from Liwa al-Islam and which is said to have received financial support from Saudi Arabia . The militia formed a major part of the Islamic Front , of which he was the military chief. Alloush has often been described as one of Syria's most powerful rebel leaders.

Life before the civil war

Alloush was born in 1971 in Duma, a Syrian suburb of Damascus. He was the son of Abdullah Alloush, a Salafist clergyman based in Saudi Arabia. Alloush studied Islamic law at Damascus University and graduated with a master's degree. He continued his studies at the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia . He was detained for two years in Syria in early 2009 for Salafist activities and gun possession in Saidnaya , in a prison for political prisoners about 22 kilometers north of Damascus, and was released in 2011 as part of a general amnesty.

Civil War Life and Death

Liwa al-Islam, led by Alloush, is held responsible for the suicide attack against the government cabinet at the headquarters of the National Security Office in Damascus on July 18, 2012, in which Syrian Defense Minister Dawud Rajiha , Deputy Defense Minister Asif Shaukat , Syria's National Security Advisor General Hischam al -Ichtiyar and the head of the Emergency Bureau General Hasan Turkmani were killed. The commander of the Republican Guard and the elite troops of the Fourth Division of the Syrian Armed Forces Mahir al-Assad , the counter-terrorism commander of the Idarat al-Amn al-Amm secret service , General Hafez Makhlouf , Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar and the Deputy Secretary General of the Baath Party General Mohammed Said Bekheitan was injured. The assassin detonated an explosives belt in the meeting room of the strictly secured building.

On September 29, 2013, the Liwa al-Islam joined forces with other groups to form the Syrian Jaish al-Islam (English: Jaish al-Islam).

Alloush was also the spokesman and commander of the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (SILF). When it merged to form the Islamic Front in November 2013, he became its military chief.

Jaish al-Islam was one of the opposition groups that participated in a conference in Riyadh in late 2015 to prepare for peace talks. Talks between the government and the opposition on a political transition were prepared for January 2016 under the auspices of the United Nations.

On December 25, 2015, Alloush and five other leaders died in a Russian air strike in Damascus.

Attitude towards Alawites and Shiites

Alloush has expressed disdain for Alawites in public several times . He referred to these and Shiites as "impure" or as rāfida ("rejecters") and called them the "filth" of the Levant . He also demanded that Syria be freed from the dirty works and misdeeds of the Alawites, whom he called “Nusairians”, which is a dirty word in Arabic. Alloush even said that the residents of Ghouta would "crush the heads of the Rafida".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Air raid on rebel group Jaysh al-Islam, leader killed In: Der Standard. December 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ Kristin Helberg: The Salafist and the human rights activist. Kidnapping of Razan Zeitouneh and her colleagues in Syria. In: Qantara.de. 2014, accessed December 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ annahar.com
  4. ↑ Aron Lund: Freedom fighters? Cannibals? The truth about Syria's rebels , The Independent . June 17, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Syrian security chief dies after attack. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2012 .
  6. ^ State TV: Syria's defense minister killed. In: ORF . July 18, 2012, accessed July 18, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Three sizes of regime killed. In: ORF. July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Markus Bickel: Right in the heart. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
  9. ^ Mapping Militant Organizations - Jaish al-Islam. In: web.stanford.edu. November 5, 2014, accessed December 26, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Alex MacDonald: Rise of Jaish al-Islam marks a turn in Syria conflict. In: Middle East Eye , May 7, 2015.
  11. ↑ Fabian Schmidmeier: The development of radical Islamist and neo-Salafist rebel groups before the rise of IS. In: DerOrient.com (Online), December 27, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Alloush, Zahran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alloush, Mohammed Zahran (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian rebel leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Duma , Damascus , Syria
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2015
Place of death Damascus , Syria