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Army Intervenes as Arrest of Jabal Mohsen Man Sparks Clashes with Bab al-Tabbaneh
[An Nahar] An army soldier was maimed on Friday as sniper gunfire erupted in Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Bab al-Tabbaneh, Jabal Mohsen and Syria Street, state-run National News Agency reported. "Gunshots were heard between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen and sniper activity is taking place around Syria Street," NNA said. "The army deployed heavily on the longstanding fighting frontiers and is responding to the sources of gunfire firmly and heavily," the agency added. Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... al-Jadeed television said an elderly man who was in a public bus was injured at the al-Bazar frontier. It also said that the army diverted traffic to safer routes after sniper gunshots targeted the Abu Ali roundabout. Earlier, al-Jadeed said tension surged on the al-Bazar and al-Mallouleh frontiers after a man from Jabal Mohsen was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by security forces. It later identified the man as Arab Democratic Party official al-Nawwaseh, saying he was arrested by the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau. Later on Friday, NNA said the army closed the Tripoli-Akkar international highway after the renewal of sniper activity in the area, as al-Jadeed said a young man identified as S. M. was maimed by sniper fire in the al-Baqqar area. "The sounds of kabooms were heard in the area of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, specifically in the vicinity of the al-Mallouleh roundabout, and they could have resulted from the kaboom of a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG)," NNA added. A few hours later, LBCI said the army largely restored calm in the unrest zone, but noted that gunshots were still being heard. A military source told LBCI: "We fired at the two fighting parties in Tripoli, who shot back and hurled hand grenades at our armored personnel carriers, but no soldiers have been hurt." Quoting the Arab Democratic Party, the main political and gang in Jabal Mohsen, LBCI said "the unrest erupted after an Intelligence Bureau unit arrested a young man from Jabal Mohsen called Youssef Diab, which prompted residents to protest and fire shots in the air, the thing that provoked Bab al-Tabbaneh's residents and led to festivities." "The arrest of the young man in Jabal Mohsen is an attempt to eliminate the Alawite sect and it will not go unnoticed and we demand that the detainee be handed over to the army," LBCI quoted the party's leader Rifaat Eid as saying. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... Tripoli MP Mohammed Kabbara, a member of al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc, urged "our people in Bab al-Tabbaneh to leave things to the army and not to be dragged into a strife that 'the Assad barracks' in Jabal Mohsen is trying to ignite." Posted by: Fred 2013-10-12 |
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