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Imad Yassin
Encyclopedia
Imad Yassin is the leader of Jund Ash Sham
's military wing. He is a dropout of Abu Mohjen's Osbat al-Ansar
, which has long been considered a terrorist organization by the United States
, due to its connection with Osama bin Laden
's al-Qaida network.
Jund Ash Sham
Jund Ash Sham aka Jund al-Sham is an anti-Fatah Sunni Muslim group formed in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in 2004 and is considered a splinter group of Osbat al-Nour...
's military wing. He is a dropout of Abu Mohjen's Osbat al-Ansar
Osbat al-Ansar
Osbat al-Ansar or Asbat an-Ansar is a Lebanon-based Sunni fundamentalist group established in the early 1990s which professes the Salifi form of Islam and the overthrow of the Lebanese-dominated secular government...
, which has long been considered a terrorist organization by the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, due to its connection with Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
's al-Qaida network.