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(1)How was Shaheed Al-Bouti(Ψ±ΩŽΨ­ΩΩ…ΩŽΩ‡Ω ٱللّٰهُ) Assassinated?

This is the video where it occurred,reportedly in a "bomb-blast" done by an "Al-Nusra terrorist".

Atleast,that's the "official" assadist line.
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Even a child watching this video(released foolishly by the assad regime) can see that the "official" line is brutal foolishness.

As you can see in the pic,Shaykh Al-bouti was clearly not killed due to the explosion. But, this wasnt a large explosion, it was a small explosion
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This eliminates the possibility of a suicide bombing, since it is 95% sure that the explosion occurred pre-planned in al-Iman mosque.(central Damascus)

And it is likely to have been by someone from the inside, someone who was closely monitoring each and every movements
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and activities of the Shaykh.

The video clip shows Sheikh al-Bouti sitting at a desk in the al-Iman mosque in central Damascus apparently addressing religious students, as he was reportedly doing at the time of his death.
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As he is speaking, there is a small explosion in front of the desk. It produces a flash, a bang and some smoke, but is not strong enough to disturb the desk or to shake the camera.
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Within three seconds the smoke clears enough for the viewer to see the Sheikh, who has slumped sideways to our left clutching his head. He straightens himself up groggily, adjusting his headgear which had slipped.
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Although there is still some smoke, no obvious injuries are visible. The sheikh is also strong enough to sit back up without using his hands to push himself upright - they are busy straightening his turban.
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At that point, just five seconds after the explosion,a man dressed in dark clothing moves forward in front of the camera and approaches the sheikh,blocking him from view.This is likely to be our assadist culprit who murdered him.

Question is:what was he doing to the shaykh?
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He is clearly not moving in to provide first aid to the sheikh. He does not run around the desk to help him. He approaches from the front, does something to him, lays him to the side, and moves away.
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From his movements, seen from behind, he does not appear to be either shooting or stabbing the sheikh with force. He could be sliding or injecting something into him. If so, it is done very calmly and professionally.
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What is clear is that as that man moves away, the sheikh is dead or dying.
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The other men (assad's henchmen) who then move in make no attempt to attend to him or investigate his injuries, they just heave him up and drag him away.
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From the evidence in the video, it is inconceivable that such a small blast could have caused the death of around 50 other people,as reported by the state media.

The implication of the video is that the sheikh was the only victim, since the men who approach him after
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of structural damage or bloodbath that would be expected from a huge bomb killing 50 people in an enclosed space.

The regime's account was that the blast was the work of a lone suicide bomber who had infiltrated the students attending Sheikh al-Bouti's talk.

But the video
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shows a group of men, one of them wearing a suit, working together to remove the sheikh's body swiftly, apparently in coordination with the man in dark who had moved away.

The implication seemed to be that the sheikhs' killing was the work of the regime - an accusation
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immediately levelled by the opposition at the time and repeated by many of those drawing attention to the video.

But why would the regime kill an elderly, highly distinguished Sunni cleric who had stood by it through thick and thin and castigated the rebels as terrorists
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and mercenaries?

The answer may lie in the fact that Al-Bouti was privately harshly critical of the regime and as per rumours, he was about to defect openly.

His murder was "condemned" by the regime, and decried by the opposition.
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Also, another important fact derivable from the video.
Immediately after the explosion, al-Bouti is carried away by five other figures. None of the figures show any attempt "to attend to [Al-Bouti] or investigate his injuries", and their movements have "nothing of the panic
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and chaos that accompanies big bomb explosions in crowded places".
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