Sidon resident killed in Iraq

SIDON: A supporter of fugitive Salafist preacher Ahmad al-Assir was killed while fighting in Iraq, the man's family announced Wednesday.

The family of Nader Mohammad Rifai, a Sidon native, announced that their son had been killed in Iraq, although they refused to disclose how their son was killed or weather he was fighting alongside ISIS.

The family did not even disclose the date of their son’s death.

Rifai is suspected of fighting alongside Assir in a two-day battle with the Lebanese Army in Sidon in June 2013. The attacks resulted in the death of 18 Army soldiers and around 40 of Assir’s followers. The Army also arrested dozens of suspects militants.

Last July, Military Intelligence raided Rifai’s house in Sidon but the man was not there, and his family claimed that they had no knowledge of his whereabouts.

Rifai is the third of Assir’s followers to die outside Lebanon after Fadi Al-Sousi died in Syria last year and Hasan Ghandour was killed in Syria earlier this month.

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