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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
2 Syrians Held for Attacking Army in Arsal Clashes
2014-12-20
[AnNahar] The army on Friday enjugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
two Syrians in the Bekaa region on charges of involvement in the deadly August festivities in the northeastern border town of Arsal, in which several troops and non-combatants were killed.

?The army intelligence arrested in the northern Bekaa town of Fakiha the Syrians Ahmed Mefleh Seifeddine, 20, and Abdul Karim Ahmed Seifeddine, 39,? state-run National News Agency reported.

The two men hail from the Syrian town of al-Nizariyeh in the central Homs province, NNA said.

It said they were apprehended ?for taking part in the assault on the army during the Arsal festivities.?

Around 20 troops and 16 non-combatants were killed when snuffies from the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
stormed Arsal on August 2 and engaged in fierce battles with the army.

Gunmen who came out of the Syrian refugee encampents in the area assisted the jihadists in their assault.

The snuffies also took hostage around 36 soldiers and coppers of whom seven were eventually released and four were executed.

They are threatening to kill more captives if Lebanese authorities do not release Islamist prisoners held in Leb.
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