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THE SHIITE JIHAD IN SYRIA AND ITS REGIONAL EFFECTS

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76 n <strong>THE</strong> <strong>SHIITE</strong> <strong>JIHAD</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>SYRIA</strong><br />

July 9, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/09/beirut-car-bombhezbollah-stronghold;<br />

and “Suspect in July Bir al-Abed Blast in Custody, Daily Star,<br />

August 17, 2013, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Aug-<br />

17/227609-suspect-in-july-bir-al-abed-blast-in-custody.ashx#axzz3AmUIb8Wn.<br />

247. Batoul Wehbe, “Sayyed Nasrallah’s Speech on al-Quds Day in Video,” al-Manar,<br />

http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=1&cid=&frid=&e<br />

id=105169.<br />

248. Associated Press, “Beirut Car Bomb Rips through Hezbollah Stronghold,” August 15,<br />

2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/15/beirut-car-bomb-hezbol<br />

lah-stronghold.<br />

249. Thomas El-Basha and Meris Lutzl, “Car Bomb Kills 21 in Beirut Southern<br />

Suburb,” Daily Star, August 16, 2014, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Leb<br />

anon-News/2013/Aug-15/227505-explosion-in-southern-suburb-of-beirutwitnesses.ashx#axzz3AmUIb8Wn.<br />

250. Laila Bassam, “Car Bomb Kills 20 in Hezbollah’s Beirut Stronghold,” Reuters,<br />

August 15, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/15/us-lebanonexplosion-idUSBRE97E0S520130815.<br />

251. Nick Paton Walsh and Matt Smith, “Beirut Bombs Kill 23: Blasts Linked to Syrian<br />

Civil War,” CNN, November 19, 2013, http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/19/world/<br />

meast/lebanon-beirut-explosion/.<br />

252. Reuters, “Lebanon Suicide Bomb Claimed by ISIL Group—Statement,” June<br />

27, 2014, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/27/uk-lebanon-security-idUKK<br />

BN0F216Y20140627.<br />

253. Ibid.<br />

254. “Satellite Channel Belong[ing] to Asaib alhel [sic] al Haq Targeted by Two Car<br />

Bomb[s],” Shafaq News, August 15, 2013, http://www.english.shafaaq.com/index.<br />

php/security/6951-satellite-channel-belong-to-asaib-alhel-al-haq-targeted-bytwo-car-bomb-.<br />

255. Tim Arango and Duraid Adnan, “Iraqi Militants Stage Political Rally,<br />

Then Bombs Go Off,” New York Times, April 25, 2014, http://www.nytimes.<br />

com/2014/04/26/world/middleeast/militant-rally-in-iraq-ends-in-deadlysectarian-bombing.html.<br />

256. See https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Images/Books/Smyth/Comb<br />

ined/T-256ab.jpg for photos (a) and (b).<br />

257. See https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Images/Books/Smyth/T-257.<br />

jpg for photo.<br />

258. Mustafa al-Khazali, interview with Falah Sharqiya News, April 24, 2014, https://<br />

www.facebook.com/video.php?v=724372880918863&video_source=pages_finch_<br />

thumbnail_video.<br />

259. Agence France-Presse, “Ex-Syria Fighter Running for Parliament in Iraq,”<br />

National, April 22, 2014, http://www.thenational.ae/world/iraq/ex-syria-fighterrunning-for-parliament-in-iraq.<br />

260. Facebook page for “Aalam al-Haj Falah al-Khaz’ali,” https://www.facebook.

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