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| 4 Held for Smuggling Arms to Arsal Militants |
| 2016-03-10 |
[An Nahar] The army incarceratedYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Wednesday thirteen suspects in the Bekaa region in two separate operations, according to military statements. "Following search and investigations, an Intelligence Directorate patrol raided the houses of Ibrahim Ahmed Matar, Ali Ahmed Matar, Hussam Abdo Matar and Mustafa Mohammed Seifeddine in the Bekaa area of Jdeidet al-Fakiha, where it managed to arrest them," an army statement said. The four were wanted on charges of "smuggling arms, ammunition and military equipment to the turban groups in Arsal's outskirts," the army added. It said the suspects used "secret compartments inside an Opel car and a Volkswagen car" to carry out their smuggling operations. "A rocket, a shell, pistols, light ammunition, a large cache of military gear and a BMW car with no legal registration papers" were seized in the raid, the army added. Separately, an army force arrested nine Syrians and Paleostinians in the Bekaa area of Majdel Anjar for "entering Leb illegally and possessing a car with no legal papers and a number of surveillance cameras," the military said in another statement. Extremists from the al-Qaeda-linked 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 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 in mountainous regions in Arsal's outskirts and along the porous Lebanese-Syrian border. The gunnies clash with the army and with Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... occasionally but a major confrontation erupted in August 2014 when the two groups overran Arsal in the wake of the army's arrest of a senior turban. Nineteen soldiers and around 60 gunnies were killed in the fighting. The two groups also kidnapped during the battle dozens of troops and coppers of which four were eventually executed. |
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