Abdullah Azzam Brigades Says Project Targeting Iran, Hizbullah to Continue
Abdullah Azzam Brigades accused Hizbullah on Tuesday of removing the respirator of Majed al-Majed, who died in Lebanon recently, stressing that its project against Iran and the party will go on.
“The Sheikh (al-Majed) was in a come when he was detained and his condition deteriorated... prompting Hizbullah to remove his respirator,” a statement issued by the group that is loyal to al-Qaida said via twitter.
The statement pointed out that al-Majed's illness forced him to resort to a high medical care since December 4, 2012.
“When al-Majed was submitted into hospitals he was in a coma... The Iranian party couldn't reach him until he was detained in December 27, 2013 after reports about his illness emerged,” the brigades pointed out.
The statement noted that alleged reports that Hizbullah questioned al-Majed is “mere fabrications and an attempt to achieve moral victory on his account.”
It criticized "attacks against Sunnis orchestrated by Iran's party, which controls Lebanon's military intelligence and manipulates it at will."
It also said Iran "manipulates all Lebanese state institutions to protect both its interests and those of its Baathist ally in Syria," a reference to President Bashar Assad.
The brigades considered that al-Majed left behind him capable men, who could lead after him.
“His project will continue to target Iran and its party (Hizbullah) and the Jewish aggressors to defend Sunnis and those who are oppressed.”
Brigades member Sirajeddin Zreikat had already threatened more attacks in Lebanon until Hezbollah ends its intervention.
Al-Majed, a Saudi national, died in Lebanon earlier this month while undergoing treatment at the Central Military Hospital after his health deteriorated, the army said in a communique.
He is accused of being behind the suicide bombing that targeted the Iranian embassy in Beirut on November 19, 2013, and he was detained in December of the same year and had been held at a secret location.
He was also wanted by Saudi Arabia on terrorism charges.
The Lebanese army said in a communique that al-Majed was detained on December 26, 2013, noting that DNA testing confirmed his identity.
The group was formed in 2009 and is believed to have branches in both the Arabian Peninsula and Lebanon.
The Lebanese unit is named after Ziad al-Jarrah, a Lebanese who took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
It is named for the Palestinian mentor of the late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. He was killed in a 1989 bomb blast.
According to Islamist sites, Majed was revealed to be the leader of the Brigades in 2012.
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.
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