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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
3 New Rockets Hit Outskirts of Bekaa's al-Nabi Sheet
2014-03-14
[An Nahar] Three Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
fired from the Syrian side of the Eastern Mountain Belt landed Thursday in the hills of the Bekaa town of al-Nabi Sheet, state-run National News Agency reported.

The rockets which hit the al-Arid neighborhood did not cause any casualties, NNA said.

On Tuesday, three people were maimed when rockets fired from Syria struck the al-Qantara area in al-Nabi Sheet's outskirts, which prompted President Michel Suleiman
...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too...
to reiterate his call for "the warring parties in Syria to neutralize Lebanese border towns and villages and from their shelling."

On Saturday, rockets fired from Syria landed in the Bekaa regions of al-Hermel and al-Qaa.

The Qaeda-inspired groups al-Nusra Front in Leb 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...
usually claim responsibility for such attacks, arguing that they come in retaliation to Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
's military intervention in Syria.
Posted by:Fred

#2  *giggle*
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-03-14 20:01  

#1  When Mo's biggest fans hit the Sheet,
Ol' man Musawi's goat gave a bleat:
"Baaallahu baaakbar!
Fetch me my scimitar
To avenge this un-Sethical feat!"

When Islamists have the effrontery
To rocket a non-Jooish country,
The Muslims abused
Are a little confused,
So their protests are merely perfunctory.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-03-14 14:19  

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