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106 sentenced to death over clashes with Lebanon army
2016-05-20
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Leb military judge Wednesday sentenced 106 men to death over festivities between the army and faceless myrmidons two years ago in the east of the country, a judicial source said.

Judge Najat Abou Chakra convicted 73 Syrians, 32 Lebanese and one Paleostinian of belonging to "terrorist organizations," attacking the town of Arsal near the Syrian border, and kidnapping and attempting to kill Lebanese soldiers and coppers, the source said.

Seventy-seven of those convicted are in jug but the other 29 remain on the lam.

They include Abu Malek al-Talli, the leader in the cross-border area of Qalamun of Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Nusra Front.

In August 2014, the Lebanese army clashed with ISIS murderous Moslem group and Al-Nusra in Arsal.

IS and Al-Nusra kidnapped 30 soldiers and coppers as they withdrew.

After lengthy negotiations, 16 of the captured men were released in early December in exchange for Islamist prisoners jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in Leb.

Since the start of the five-year conflict in Syria, Leb has become home to more than one million Syrian refugees.

It has also been the scene of deadly bombings, including attacks targeting the Shiite group Hezbollah, a key ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
’s regime.
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