, including two Iraqis who planned and implemented the assassination of prominent cleric , Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti in March of current year .
The named , Ibrahim Mohammed Abbas, who identified himself on Syrian state television said that "he is a Prince of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) , My name is Abdul Aziz and I am of an Iraqi nationality from Baghdad province and served as the Emir of al-Sham in “Nusrah Front " when a disagreement took place between Nusrah front and ISIL”.
Abbas added that " We are Salafi and when Sheikh al-Bouti criticized the operations of ( Nusrah Front) we receive orders from Abu Samir al-Urdoni who served as the so-called ( the General military prince of Nusrah front), who is an assistant to Abu Mohammed al-Joulani as I received the order from Abu Osama to kill Sheikh al-Bouti by an advisory opinion , which is called (legislate official of Nusrah front) named Abu Khadija al-Urdoni . "
Another person named , Alaa El Din Mohamed Qattash identified himself as " Prince of the so-called ( security detachment in Rukn al-Din area) affiliated to ( Nusrah Front) said that the “ order to assassinate Sheikh al-Bouti came to us by Prince ( Abu Osama al-Iraqi ) who ordered Abdul Aziz that Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Bouti must be assassinated “.
Al-Bouti - Imam appointed by the government of the Umayyad archaeologist Mosque – had been killed last March in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the same neighborhood , killing at least another 49 people .
Al- Bouti was considered one of the senior scientists in the Islamic world , but became controversy subject when he announced support for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the uprising taking place in Syria .