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February 8, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudanese member of the Islamic State (ISIS) has been killed by the forces of the Shura council of the Derna revolutionaries in Libya, a group close to Al-Qaeda group.
- FILE - Two ISIS supporters hold flag (ABC News)
Well-informed sources belonging to the Jihadist movement in the land of the Two Nile told Sudan Tribune that ISIS judge and senior legal official in al-Nofalia area in eastern Libya Al-Fatih Ahmed Jaber was assassinated last Wednesday.
Jaber was a disciple of the Sudanese Jihadist preacher Masa’ad al-Sidairah and he was among those who pledged allegiance to ISIS’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He joined the extremist organization in Libya two years ago.
Media leaks had earlier said that Jaber was killed in clashes between ISIS and the revolutionary militants but the sources denied that saying he had been physically eliminated in the prisons of the Shura council of the Derna revolutionaries.
Shura council of the Derna revolutionaries, which is loyal to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is an umbrella including several factions in eastern Libya. It has recently engaged in fierce clashes with the ISIS.
Expert on the Jihadist groups al-Hadi Mohamed al-Amin told Sudan Tribune that previous reports pointed that Jaber was killed during an air raid against ISIS positions in eastern Libya while other reports said he was killed in clashes between ISIS and Shura council of the Derna revolutionaries’ forces last week.
He added that Jaber was more likely shot to death by the Bu Salim brigades which belong to the Derna revolutionaries, stressing that he had been in detention for several months.
A report to the United Nations Security Council released last November mentioned that the ISIS militants are building a, alternative base in Libya, pointing that several leading members of the Jihadist group moved to the north African country.
Since, different western sources officially confirmed the ISIS presence in Libya pointing to the continued political instability and attractive oil crude.
(ST)
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