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| Explosion Targets Army Patrol in Arsal as Nusra Front Points Finger Hizbullah |
| 2014-11-16 |
| [AnNahar] Al-Qaeda-affiliate 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 accused on Friday Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... of planting a landmine that went kaboom!in an army patrol on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal. Three soldiers were maimed in a roadside kabooming that targeted their patrol in al-Raayan road in Arsal's Wadi Ata region as unknown gunnies shot up another patrol heading to inspect the site of the kaboom. The state-run National News Agency said that the army's Special Forces fifth regiment patrol was targeted with the kaboom. The army later said in a communique "a roadside kabooming targeted a military vehicle patrolling the outskirts of Arsal, wounding three soldiers." The statement continued: "Unknown gunnies shot up another patrol accompanying a military expert to inspect the kaboom site." "Soldiers responded to the sources of fire, pursuing assailants, who fled into the mountainous areas near the town." Later on Friday, the army said two other bombs weighing 15 kilograms each were seized in the same location. "A military expert detonated one of them on site and efforts are underway to dismantle the other one," the army added. NNA reported that a colonel, a sergeant and a soldier were maimed in the assault. State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr tasked the military police and intelligence branch with carrying out the preliminary investigations regarding the bombing. The Lebanese army later dismantled two bombs found near the kaboom site, NNA said. Gunmen from al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group are entrenched on the outskirts of Arsal on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border. They engaged in a bloody fighting with the Lebanese army in August and took with them hostages from the military and police. The snuffies later executed three of them and threatened to kill more if the Lebanese authorities failed to meet their demands. Since then the army deployed heavily in Arsal and repelled several infiltration attempts after it blocked dirt roads near the town to stop the Lions of Islam from receiving supplies. |
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