BEIRUT: Syria’s main rebel group said yesterday that it wanted an Islamic court to investigate the killing of one of its top commanders at the hands of foreign Islamist fighters last week.
The call is the first official reaction by the Western-backed Supreme Military Council to the killing of Kamal Hamami, also known as Abu Bassir Al Ladkani, which has set liberal rebels and Islamists at each other’s throats.
Rebel sources said Abu Ayman Al Baghdadi, the main suspect, is in hiding and there is no sign that he will be handed over to the court in the northern city of Aleppo by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, an Al Qaeda-linked group in Syria to which he belongs.
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