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| Beirut Police Sets Up Roving Checkpoints to Reassure Citizens after Wave of Blasts |
| 2014-02-08 |
| [An Nahar] Beirut Police has decided to set up temporary checkpoints across the city in a bid to reassure citizens over their security in the wake of the latest wave of deadly bombings. "The command of Beirut Police has decided -- in coordination with acting Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous and as part of executing the resolutions of the command's council -- to set up roving checkpoints within the capital," the National News Agency reported. "Units from the Beirut Investigation Department, its emergency squad, the Intelligence Bureau and the Judicial Police will be present on the ground to search vehicles and inspect their ownership documents -- especially suspicious cars -- in order to preserve security and reassure citizens," NNA said. In this regard, a temporary checkpoint was set up in the Beirut district of Hamra. "Citizens and owners of shops and private businesses lauded the step, although it caused a traffic jam," NNA said. Since July 2013, ten kabooms have rocked Leb, six of them involving jacket wallahs. The attacks have been claimed by various jihadist groups, some of them linked to organizations fighting across the border in Syria, including al-Nusra Front in Leb, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL). The groups say they are targeting Hizbullah for fighting in Syria alongside the regime. The heart of Beirut was rocked by a boom-mobileing that killed former minister Mohammed Shatah and seven other people on December 27. And while most of the kabooms targeted areas considered sympathetic to Hizbullah in the Bekaa and Beirut's southern suburbs, the northern city of 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... was also hit by deadly bombings in August 2013. |
| Posted by:Fred |