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Lebanese army chief: 50 militants held in raids on Syrian camps
[AlAhram] Leb's army chief said on Tuesday the army had 50 "dangerous terrorists" in jug among hundreds of detainees juggedYou have the right to remain silent... in recent security raids on Syrian refugee camps on the border between the two countries. General Joseph Oun was quoted on the army website as saying that among those detained since a major security sweep began last month were some who had taken part in an attack on the town of Arsal in 2014 and in the kidnapping of army soldiers. The camps around the town have long been a haven for Syrian hard boyz briefly overran Arsal in 2014 in a battle that killed dozens and marked one of the more serious spillovers of the Syrian conflict into Leb "The army will not make the camps a facade for the terrorists," Oun was quoted as saying, without elaborating on the identity of the krazed killers. The army said at the time of the raids last month that there were several 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.... officials among some 350 people detained. It later said four of the Syrian men arrested had died in detention from chronic illnesses. Rights activists and refugees said they had been tortured to death. Leb's powerful Shia Hezbollah group last Friday launched an offensive in the mountains overlooking Arsal to oust jihadists from their last foothold along the Syria-Leb border. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-26 |
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