Majed al-Majed Dies after Deterioration of his Health
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The army announced on Saturday the death of Majed al-Majed, the “emir” of the al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades, after the deterioration of his health.
The Army Command said in a statement that he died while he was being treated at the central military hospital.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr later told al-Jadeed television that Majed was in a coma before his death, adding that he tasked a forensic pathologist to examine his corpse.
Majed was suffering from kidney problems, said Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) earlier on Saturday.
The suspect was being held at Baabda military hospital since his recent arrest due to his “poor health,” reported Agence France Presse on Friday.
He was suffering from kidney failure and required daily dialysis.
Majed is the suspected head of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the November 19 attack against the Iranian embassy in Beirut, killing 25 people.
According to Islamist websites, Majed was revealed to be the leader of the Brigades in 2012.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades group was designated in the United States in 2012 as a "terrorist organization".
It was formed in 2009 and is believed to have branches in both the Arabian Peninsula and Lebanon.
In 2009, Lebanon sentenced Majed in absentia to life in prison for belonging to a different extremist group, the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah al-Islam.
04 January 2014, 12:23
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Thank you.... I was lost for words due to the enormity of the occasion.
04 January 2014, 12:34
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In fact ice it is sad this guy had a lot of infos on who is really backing those guys in irak suria lebanon... We could had a lot of surprise... I hv been telling on this firum since yesterday that it is good that he is in the costudy of the army and army moukhabarat, so march 8 lunatics don't come with mou2amara stule saoudi killed him. Now why did he died? Who is responssable? The infos that we could have get from him could hv changed things and saved so much lives....
04 January 2014, 13:07
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Is swahili your first language? Because the drivel that you write is uninteligible
04 January 2014, 14:09
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Goddamnit, Saudi got what they wanted. I hoped he would be alive to tell the Lebanese Authorities everything. Ofcourse Saudi got to him first.
04 January 2014, 12:13
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This is it, a convenient way to solve a nagging problem. So the Iranians will not get to question him and his body will be flown for burial back home. OK, let's assume the story is true, can the leaders of the different political parties be allowed to see for themselves and ascertain the matter?
04 January 2014, 12:16
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If you do any cursory research on the net, you will find out this person had been suffering from kidney problems for years. In,fact, he was severely injured in Afghanistan. I don't see anything sinister behind his death.
04 January 2014, 16:25
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I did my research perfectly well Ex-FPM and I know of the ailments this man suffered from and what caused them, but does it not occur to you that renal machines are readily available to treat such people? Then yes, it's sinister one way or the other, his death in such a timing does raise question, but well, we are in Lebanon, the land of a thousand and one problems multiplied by a thousand and one question, till now, no answers. Anyway....
04 January 2014, 18:52
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@-phoenix1
In retrospect, sinister be this man's death or not it is the best possible outcome. Can you imagine the stress Lebanon would have suffered as a result of Iran and Saudi Arabia competing to see which will prevail more on us for interrogation etc. I would not be surprised that HA was consulted and Hassan N. concurred with this scheme. Of course assuming the veracity of the official story is questionable, which, in the Levant, it almost always is...
04 January 2014, 12:22
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All we need now is his followers to claim he was killed while in custody by the army.
04 January 2014, 14:11
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Well, at least they didn't say he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head thrice...
Jokes aside: there will be no love lost with Al-Majed's death, but you have to agree that it is easy to be suspicious when there was a continuation of the proxy war between Iran and Saudi over the guy, and like one supporter of another Islamist fanatic last year, he died while in custody and going through "secret interrogations" (they couldn't find a better euphemism for torture?).
04 January 2014, 16:18
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That sounds like Assad's shabiha.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9400570/Confessions-of-an-Assad-Shabiha-loyalist-how-I-raped-and-killed-for-300-a-month.html
04 January 2014, 17:23
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Oh the Al Qaeda uses Western propaganda now? How sweet, i thought that was haram?
04 January 2014, 17:37
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Why do shias/iran claim to be opposed the 'zionist world order' and then collaborate with the zionists in Afghanistan and Iraq?
04 January 2014, 14:16
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With no transparency or accountability for the authorities, this man might have been liquidated because he knew too much.
Today one less criminal is around but it is more important to know who financed and harbored him and his likes.
04 January 2014, 14:22
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Good and honest people of Lebanon,
My brother is a kidney specialist in USA, and if he had kidney problems, then Dialysis could have easily taken care this saudi terrorist's problem until Iranians could talk to him .
Either he was killed by one of March 14th terrorists on Saudi payroll or this scum Saudi terrorist is still alive and was flown to KSA due to Saudi money. This Saudi scum killed a lot of Lebanese and Syrians.
04 January 2014, 15:29
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I wonder if they will put him 6 feet under here in Lebanon or ship him to Saudi Arabia
04 January 2014, 15:45
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How convenient - Sayyed Hassan accuses him of being an agent of Saudi Intelligence. Saudi Arabia declares they want him sent back to Saudi, Lebanese Judiciary announces he will only be tried in Lebanon - hours later he dies...
04 January 2014, 16:25
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with all these conspiracy theories how do you all live with yourselves? The criminal was dying from kidney failure. while being transferred from one hospital to another the authorities apprehended him. We can only hope that they extracted some info from him before he went to hell. Most of you are consumed by conspiracies its disturbing.
04 January 2014, 16:40
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He was killed to cover up the bloody hand of Saud in Lebanon.
If you cannot see that then your either blind or a of the Saud family.
04 January 2014, 17:05
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isn't this guy wanted by Saudi Arabia? isn't he linked to Iran that used him like they used all Qaeda terrorists against the Gulf States and the weest?
My Bet is that they shut him up so he do not say were he was trained and who was his real master (Iranian - Rev Guards for sure.)
04 January 2014, 17:12
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Now it has become absolutely clear that this Al Qaeda terrorist was working for Saudi intelligence. He conveniently dies as both the US and Iranian governments were seeking access to interrogate him, while the Lebanese president receives $3 billion from the Saudi tyranny for his Army, to buy "French weapons." How many times has that happened before? The Lebanese people need to wake up, March 14 alliance is being controlled by the Saudi masters. They will ruin Lebanon as they have ruined Libya, Syria and Iraq.
04 January 2014, 19:01
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A Wahhabi terrorist dies and leaves us Lebanese bickering and insulting each other . Even the dead are able to divide and conquer this small country full of small people with small brains.
I am yet to find a comment that encourages unity . A sad world we live. I'm almost ashamed to be Lebanese .
04 January 2014, 20:20
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Same reason m14 is bent on forming a government without veto power to M8. One side wants to implement Saudi Sharia laws and the other side wants to veto them.
04 January 2014, 21:53
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Explain how a neutral cabinet would protect Lebanon from conflict when they supposedly don't represent anybody. Is this neutral cabinet supposed to be Supreme in Judgement? I respectfully await your answer.
04 January 2014, 22:20
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It's all a matter of relative power. A technocrat running a ministry has to report to someone. If that someone is the prime minister, then the prime minister will have absolute power over all ministries. If the prime minister is also a technocrat then he will have to report to someone. You say that someone will be parliament. He will then be reporting to the speaker whom will then have absolute power over all ministries. That is why this will not work. This is like taking pieces of the US government without checks and balances. Having veto power for opposition is a better government for Lebanon.
05 January 2014, 00:18
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Annoy, what you suggest sounds good on paper and very idealistic and unfortunately very naive. Reality is not what you hope it is. People in power abuse power believing they are doing good. You need checks and balances such as veto power especially for a multisectarian society like Lebanon.
05 January 2014, 01:31
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indeed this is a possible path; this guy had too many compromising infos.
