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| 22 Hizbullah Fighters Killed in Qusayr on Saturday | |
| 2013-05-27 | |
"There were 22 killed on Saturday. Nine bodies were repatriated the same day and the rest on Sunday," the source said, declining to be named. The source also said regime forces backed by fighters of Hizbullah control 80 percent of the strategic town of Qusayr. "We still have to take another 20 percent of Qusayr, since we took 10 percent on Sunday and the rest was already in our hands," the source said. In addition, "the main road between (Lebanon's) Baalbek and (Syria's) Homs has been secured," he said, referring to a vital artery through which the Lebanese group sends men and equipment to Syria. The Syrian army announced that on Saturday its forces had infiltrated Dabaa military airport, a rebel post north of Qusayr, a week into a Hizbullah-backed offensive to recapture the strategic central town near the Lebanese border. "Fighting is taking place inside the airport after they broke the rebel defense lines," an army source said. The source close to Hizbullah said the armed group has now lost a total of almost 110 fighters since it joined the battle in Syria several months ago, with most of the deaths in and around Qusayr. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 IIRC STARS-N-STRIPES [paraph] > ALL SYRIAN REBELS CALLED FOR QUSAYR FIGHT. Strategic = decisive battle. Mehtinks this means Al-Nusra, Taliban, + espec Hezbollah, etal. will be calling in all of their Boyz for same, agz same??? Similarly ...??? * PRAVDA > IRAN PRAISES SYRIA FOR ITS VICTORIOUS BATTLE AGZ TERRORIST GROUPS, both Domestic + Foreign. * DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > [News Press] SYRIAN REBEL: US WILL INTERVENE [only?] IFF WAR WIDENS, from Syria unto entire Region = five Countries. * Also from STARS-N-STRIPES > OBAMA REDEFINING TERRORISM THREATS, CRTICS SEE DANGER IN PRESIDENT'S PUSH FOR NEW [minimalist]?] STRATEGY TO FIGHT EXTREMISTS. BAMMER-LED MINIMALISM IN ME = MINIMALISM IN AFPAK = MINIMALISM IN NE,EAST ASIA AGZ CHINA = "DPRK"??? * WAFF > US PULLOUT FROM REGION POSES THREAT TO PAKISTAN, SAYS NYT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-05-27 22:50 |