Canadian Muslim terrorist, who was a senior Hezbollah member, killed by Syrian rebels.

Canadian Muslim terrorist, who was a senior Hezbollah member, killed by Syrian rebels.(NAPO).

TORONTO — Fawzi Ayoub was a hijacker, international terrorist operative and senior member of Hezbollah. He was also a naturalized Canadian citizen, but on Monday Lebanese media reported he was dead, killed in an ambush by Syrian rebels.

The 48-year-old former Toronto supermarket employee, who rose through the ranks of Hezbollah despite his tendency for getting arrested before completing his missions, was declared a “martyr” on a Facebook page filled with photos of him in battle fatigues.

The Lebanese-Canadian had been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list since 2009, when he was indicted for using a false American passport to enter Israel “for the purpose of conducting a bombing” for Hezbollah, according to his wanted notice.

His death, which Lebanese news outlets said had been announced by Hezbollah, is further proof the radical Shiite group is suffering mounting losses in Syria, where it has deployed hundreds of fighters to prop up a neighboor and key ally.

Described by his family in Toronto as religious and devout, Ayoub was a longtime Hezbollah operative and former member of an elite unit headed by the late terrorist Imad Mugniyah. “I came here by God’s order,” he testified after he was captured in Israel more than a decade ago.

“My point of view on the world is that I protect the oppressed,” he continued in his testimony. “I want to save the people from oppression.” Asked by an Israeli judge which oppressed people he wanted to save, he replied, “The Muslims are oppressed.”Hmmmm.........Your 'neighborhood devout Muslim'.Read the full story here.