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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Security Forces Arrest Several Suspected Terrorists
2014-12-18
[AnNahar] State security locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
on Wednesday a Syrian member of the 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 on suspicion of participating in the battles against the Lebanese army, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said Salah al-Dik was apprehended by state security members in the Bekaa Valley's north.

He is suspected of participating in the festivities with Lebanese troops in the northeastern border town of Arsal in August, it added.

LBCI TV said the army also arrested Syrian Ayad Mohammed Stouf on suspicion of having ties with the gangs entrenched on the Lebanese-Syrian border in Arsal's outskirts.

Another man, which LBCI identified as Khalil Braidi, was apprehended for taking part in the attacks on the army during the Arsal gunbattles.

During the August festivities, fighters from 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and 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 held Lebanese servicemen hostage in a cross-border raid on Arsal.

The Death Eaters have already killed four of their captives.
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