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68 n <strong>THE</strong> <strong>SHIITE</strong> <strong>JIHAD</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>SYRIA</strong><br />
125. “Samaha al-Sayyid yarid ‘ala suwal bkhasus al-Sheikh Auws al-Khafaji,” Jawabna,<br />
February 9, 2012, http://jawabna.com/index.php/permalink/3298.html.<br />
126. “Sara’ milishiat ‘Iraqiyya w muslahi al-ma’rada fi Dimashq w ghawtnha,” All4Syria /<br />
Shababunity.net, June 11, 2014, http://shababunity.net/show.php?id=1148120.<br />
127. AAH’s Ahlualhaq.com has numerous images combining Khamenei and Sadiq al-<br />
Sadr. Many AAH martyrdom posters also feature both clerics.<br />
128. Saud al-Zahed, “Mousa al-Sadr Alive in Libyan Prison: Sources,” Al-Arabiya,<br />
February 23, 2011, http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/23/138850.html.<br />
129. Tony Badran, “Moussa Sadr and the Islamic Revolution in Iran...and Lebanon,”<br />
NOW Lebanon, August 9, 2010, https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/comment<br />
aryanalysis/moussa_sadr_and_the_islamic_revolution_in_iran_and_lebanon.<br />
130. “Imam Musa Sadr,” Institute for the Compilation and Publication of Imam<br />
Khomeini Works, http://en.imam-khomeini.ir/en/key/Imam_Musa_Sadr. Lebanese<br />
Hezbollah also features Musa Sadr as a “Leader” on its website, http://www.<br />
moqawama.org/catessays.php?cid=243&pid=201, and the group has made music<br />
praising Sadr. See also YouTube video, 3:30, posted by Safeeralhussain, October 26,<br />
2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9y1btP6m4.<br />
131. Thanassis Cambanis, “Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, Shiite Cleric, Dies at 75,”<br />
New York Times, July 4, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/world/<br />
middleeast/05fadlallah.html?_r=0; Tony Badran, “The Death of a Marja,”<br />
NOW Lebanon, July 6, 2010, http://nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.<br />
aspx?ID=183528.<br />
132. Sam Dagher, “Syria’s Alawite Force Turned Tide for Assad,” Wall Street Journal,<br />
August 26, 2013, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142412788732399700457<br />
8639903412487708.<br />
133. See https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Images/Books/Smyth/Comb<br />
ined/T-133ab.jpg. One example is Muhammad al-Yasiri, the first “martyr”<br />
announced for Saraya Talia al-Khurasani. He was simultaneously announced as<br />
a LAFA martyr. In photo (a), Yasiri is listed as a fighter with LAFA. In photo<br />
(b), a militant with Saraya Talia al-Khurasani is shown standing in front of<br />
Yasiri on an official Saraya Talia al-Khurasani martyrdom poster.<br />
134. Reuters, “Insight: Minority Militias Stir Fears of Sectarian War in Damascus,”<br />
September 7, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/07/us-syria-crisismilitias-idUSBRE88612V20120907.<br />
135. See https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Images/Books/Smyth/T-135.jpg.<br />
This photo purportedly from late 2012 claims to show the “founders of Liwa Abu<br />
Fadl al-Abbas”: Abu Shahed is at the far left, Abu Karrar is in the middle in a white<br />
turban, Karaya is third from right in the black baseball cap, Abu Hajjar is second<br />
from right, and Abu Fatima al-Musawi is at right.<br />
136. “Shia Militias Push Back against ISIS,” CNN, July 3, 2014, http://edition.cnn.<br />
com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/03/nwsm.01.html. See also Suadad al-Salhy,<br />
“Iraqi Shiite Militants Fight for Syria’s Assad,” Reuters, October 16, 2012,<br />
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/16/us-syria-crisis-iraq-militiasidUSBRE89F0PX20121016.
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