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| General Security Arrests IS Fighter who Beheaded Medlej |
| 2016-03-08 |
| [An Nahar] General Security announced Monday that it has detained an 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 jihadist who confessed to beheading a kidnapped Lebanese soldier in 2014. IS had kidnapped the soldier along with other members of the security forces during fierce festivities in August 2014 between Lebanese troops and jihadists in the northeastern border town of Arsal on the Syrian border. Of the 30 troops and coppers kidnapped by IS and al-Qaeda affiliate the 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, four were executed. After long and arduous negotiations, al-Nusra released 16 of them in December 2015, leaving nine in the hands of IS. "The General Security Directorate ... has detained S.J., a Syrian national, for membership of a terrorist organization," the security body said. "After interrogation, he confessed to being a member of the terrorist group Daesh [Islamic State] ... and to beheading the martyred soldier Abbas Medlej," it added, using an Arabic acronym for IS. Medlej was the second Lebanese captive to be killed after the jihadist assault on Arsal. According to General Security, the detainee also confessed to killing a police officer during the raid. "He was recently involved in surveillance of Lebanese army checkpoints in Arsal, as a prelude to a new attack aimed at kidnapping soldiers," the statement said. |
| Posted by:Fred |