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| Soldier Killed, Two Wounded in Explosion on Outskirts of Arsal |
| 2014-12-04 |
| [AnNahar] One soldier was killed and two others maimed when an kaboom hit an army unit as soldiers approached a bomb to defuse it on the outskirts of Arsal. ?An army unit found at 7:30 am a bomb while combing the area on the outskirts of Arsal,? the military said in a communique. The statement added that ?a soldier was killed and two others lightly maimed when specialized members approached the bomb to dismantle it.? According to the state-run National News Agency, the kaboom took place between Wadi Ata and Wadi al-Rayaan areas on the outskirts of the northeastern border town. NNA said that this is the third such attack in the area. The army has been repelling infiltrations by gunnies who tried to progress into Arsal. Jihadists from al-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 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. Six soldiers were killed and one injured on Tuesday when their unit was ambushed in Ras Baalbek near the Syrian border. |
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