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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
1 Dead as Rockets Land on Bekaa Towns
2014-03-16
[An Nahar] One person was killed and at least two others injured on Saturday after several rockets fired from the eastern mountain range landed on Shiite towns in the Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese army and the state-run National News Agency said.

A boy named Abbas Saleh Saifeddine died in al-Nabi Othman while two others were maimed in al-Labweh, NNA and media reports said.

The army said a third person was maimed in the attack that involved four rockets.

A military expert inspected the areas where the rockets landed to determine their source, it said in a communique.

Al-Jadeed TV quoted al-Labweh's municipal chief as saying that the rockets were fired from the outskirts of the Sunni town of Arsal, whose residents support the uprising against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
.

Al-Labweh's residents blocked the road that leads from their town to Arsal to protest the attack.

The al-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.

ISIL said it was responsible for Saturday's attack, claiming to have fired five Katyusha rockets.

Al-Labweh and al-Nabi Othman are Shiite towns whose residents are supporters of Hizbullah, which is fighting alongside troops loyal to Assad against the majority Sunni rebels.

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....
landed on Thursday on the hills of the Bekaa town of Nabi Sheet, state-run National News Agency reported.

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