My wife's analysis of this episode is that HTS was smart to get rid of Shuja' Ali as quickly as possible. She suggests that Shuja' Ali was trying to exploit the Khasibi desecration video to start a confessional war in order to save himself. 

Shuja' says in his video that he and his children will fight - but they will be tried and killed anyway because they are guilty. These are the provocations that gov officials were speaking of. 

@034R447 Omar writes: "Shuja’ Al-Ali and the regime thugs were responsible for the Al-Houla massacre where 108 people, including 34 women and 49 children, were brutally murdered, most of them slaughtered with knives. These are photos of the Hulla massacre of 2012.