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Army Stops Foodstuffs Truck Destined for Arsal Jihadists
[An Nahar] The army on Sunday seized a truck loaded with foodstuffs that was headed for the jihadist groups in the outskirts of the Bekaa border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported."A truck loaded with foodstuffs and headed for the outskirts was stopped at the army's Wadi Hmeid checkpoint in Arsal," NNA said, identifying the driver as Mohammed Aude, aka "al-Aqtash." Militants from the jihadist Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... groups are entrenched in Arsal's outskirts and in mountainous areas along the undemarcated Lebanese-Syrian border. The army regularly shells their posts while Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Syrian army have engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border. The two groups briefly overran the town of Arsal in August 2014 before being ousted by the army after days of deadly battles. The retreating Lions of Islam kidnapped more than 30 troops and coppers of whom four have been executed and nine remain in IS' captivity. Posted by: Fred 2017-02-20 |
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