Islam Army Leader denies contact with Assad-baked businessmen

Leader of al-Islam Army, Zahran Alloush, denied today in his Twitter account any relationship with Basher al-Assad-baked businessman Mohamed Hamsho or receiving any funds from the controversial man.

 Hours ago 43 brigade and battalion based announced forming al-Islam Army under the leadership of Alloush where his brigade –al-Islam- considered the notion of this army

 The Islam Brigade was set up by the Alloush family from Douma, east of Damascus. The elderly patriarch Mohammed Alloush, a religious scholar, lives in Saudi Arabia. His son Zahran, a salafi activist jailed by the government in 2009, founded the group when he was released from prison in mid-2011.

 It rose to prominence after bombing the National Security Office in Damascus in July 2012, which killed several of Assad’s leading military officials. Considers itself “the biggest faction in the Damascus region” and claims to have 64 sub-battalions, but it refuses to give an estimated number of fighters.