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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Army Confirms Targeting Nusra Members in Monday's Shelling
2015-10-21
[AnNahar] The army has bolstered its security measures on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal in light of the shelling on Monday that saw the death of eight krazed killers, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Tuesday.

A high-ranking military source confirmed to the daily that the army's shelling had targeted members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated 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.

It also clarified that the military shelled the gangs with artillery, not helicopters as media reports had speculated.

"The army has bolstered its measures in the area to thwart any attack or ambush by gangs," the source added.

The military shells the positions of al-Nusra on Arsal's outskirts 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....
on Ras Baalbek's outskirts "on a daily basis," it explained, adding that Monday's shelling was "significant" because it incurred a number of casualties among the gunnies's ranks.

Eight people were killed and many maimed on Monday when the army targeted bully boy positions along the eastern border with war-torn Syria.

The army frequently shells the bully boys' positions in the border area, while Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
fighters have confronted them on the Syrian side.

The border area is also home to informal Syrian refugee camps largely beyond the reach of authorities or aid agencies.

In August 2014, Islamic State and Nusra Front hard boyz seized some 20 Lebanese soldiers and coppers during a brief cross-border raid on the town of Arsal. The bully boyz have executed four of them and are still holding the rest.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  See also RUSSIA TODAY > ISIS NEGOTIATING WID AL-NUSRA FRONT TO JOIN FORCES AGZ SYRIAN ARMY [Assad Regime] - RUSSIAN MILITARY.

Russian Defence Ministry Spox MGEN. IGOR KONASHENKOV.

HHHMMM, HHHMMM, THATS A FAMILIAR NAME.

* JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: RUSSIANS TAKE STREOIDS, READ HEGEL, SEEK RECOGNITION, as Post-USSR/Cold War, Great Power = Superpower "Equals" to US, Etal. but espec agz the US.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-10-21 22:54  

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