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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Masked Gunmen Open Fire at Clinic in Arsal, Continue Assaults in Town
2014-11-09
[An Nahar] Masked gunnies shot up dawn on Saturday at the guards of Hariri clinic in the northeastern border town of Arsal.

The state-run National News Agency reported that unknown assailants on a cycle of violence shot up the Hariri clinic in the town, causing material damage.

Acts of sabotage and armed violence have been on the rise in recent weeks in the Bekaa town of Arsal, where gunnies are trying to take the village back to August 2, when Lions of Islam from the Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front and the Qaeda breakaway group Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
crossed the border and engaged in bloody festivities with the Lebanese army.

A ceasefire was reached a few days later, but the retreating snuffies took with them several captive Lebanese troops and coppers. Seven were released while three have since been executed at the hands of the jihadists.

"Since three days, masked gunnies have been shooting at surveillance cameras in the main and side streets and public squares of Arsal," NNA said.

The gunnies are "moving on cycle of violences and using pump-action rifles."
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