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| Mustaqbal Urges Clearing Militants, Hizbullah from Arsal Outskirts after Resident Killed by Shelling |
| 2016-06-04 |
| [An Nahar] A Lebanese man who hails from Arsal was killed Friday in the outskirts of the restive northeastern border town as festivities erupted between 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... and the 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 in the area, media reports said. "Lebanese citizen Hassan Mohammed al-Fliti, 64, was killed and his son Mohammed, 39, was seriously maimed as they were heading to a cherry grove they own in the Jwar al-Sheikh area in Arsal's outskirts," state-run National News Agency reported. It quoted the son as saying that "a rocket or a grenade" had went kaboom!near them. The agency did not say where the shelling came from but noted that the region in which the two were hit lies in the middle of areas controlled by al-Nusra and Hizbullah. Voice of Leb radio (100.5) had earlier reported Hizbullah-Nusra festivities in Arsal's outskirts, adding that the Lebanese army intelligence directorate was "making contacts for a ceasefire." Future TV for its part said "al-Fliti died of his wounds after Hizbullah members shot up him in Arsal's outskirts." Earlier in the day, media reports said Hizbullah attacked a group of Nusra forces of Evil in the al-Rahweh area southeast of Arsal. The developments prompted al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement's Arsal-Hermel Department to hold an emergency meeting in which it called on "the government, the interior minister and all influential political forces to clear Arsal's outskirts from all holy warriors, specifically Hizbullah's gunnies who murder and terrorize civilians." It also called on the Army Command to "preserve security and the safety of Arsal's sons" and to "secure their access to their land and groves." Militants from al-Nusra 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 rugged mountains along the Lebanese-Syrian border and the Lebanese army regularly shells their positions while Hizbullah has engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border. The two groups overran the town of Arsal in 2014 and engaged in deadly battles with the Lebanese army for several days. The retreating forces of Evil kidnapped around 35 troops and coppers of whom four have been executed and nine remain in captivity. |
| Posted by:Fred |