The Most Wanted Man In Aleppo

Abu Assad, rebel commander of Aleppo's tunnel forces. Photograph: Zac Baillie for the Guardian

Aleppo's Most Wanted Man - The Rebel Leader Behind Tunnel Bombs -- The Guardian

Commander of Aleppo's tunnel forces is responsible for blasts that have killed Syrian troops and boosted rebel morale

The most wanted man in Aleppo is feeling satisfied. Less than a week before, he had helped pack the last of 25 tonnes of explosives into a tunnel dug under a hotel and filled with Syrian troops.

"I was sitting in this room," said Abu Assad, the rebel commander of Aleppo's tunnel forces at another of the city's frontlines. Smiling, he cupped his ear and added: "We heard the blast from here. It made us very happy."

The explosion that destroyed the Carlton Citadel hotel in central Aleppo on 8 May rumbled well beyond the 9 miles (15km) between the bomb site and where the commander now sat recalling that day. Its destructive force sent shock waves through the well-dug-in Syrian military command in the city's until-then impregnable west, and jolted to life an opposition whose war had been going badly.

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My Comment:I suspect that the price on his head must be very high.