[An Nahar] Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq denounced on Sunday a suicide car kaboom on a military post in the border town of Arsal.Suicide kabooms are kinda the epitome of terrorist acts, aren't they?
"The attack against the army in Wadi Ata region in (eastern border town of) Arsal is a criminal terrorist act that will not prevent us from implementing the security plan that the cabinet established," Mashnouq said in a statement issued by his press office.
He pointed out that the "terrorist act targets the army and as well the Lebanese people and the state's entity."
The minister offered his condolences to the families of the victims, stressing that the army will carry out its tasks in cooperation with the Internal Security forces to safeguard the land and the people.
"We will confront security violators regardless of their religion or political affiliations," Mashnouq added.