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| LF Says Upcoming Battle in Ras Baalbek Different from Arsal's |
| 2017-07-30 |
| [An Nahar] In light of battle reinforcements taken by the military forces to oust 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's hard boyz from Leb's eastern border area, the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... said the expected battle in Ras Baalbek and al-Qaa is different from the one waged in the outskirts of Arsal, al-Jouhmouria daily reported on Saturday. "The battle in the outskirts of Ras Baalbek differs in form and content from the battle in the outskirts of Arsal," LF sources told the daily. "In form, Ras Baalbek's outskirts are Lebanese while the outskirts of Arsal are triangular, one part is Lebanese, another is Lebanese-Syrian and the third is Syrian. Thus, the Lebanese state can not enter into a confrontation on Syrian soil and fight alongside the Syrian army which has been isolated at Syrian, Arab and international levels," added the source. Media reports said Saturday that the Lebanese Army is gearing for a battle against the Islamic State group hard boyz on the eastern borders in the al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek's outskirts. The source who spoke on condition of anonymity assured that the army "was the first to start the battle through its "In content," added the source, "the Lebanese army represents all the Lebanese people as it fights to protect the land and Leb's interest. While 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... 's fight is a class struggle-- even if Leb is benefiting this time in exceptional ways. Hizbullah's main goal is to achieve the interest of the axis it belongs to, not Leb's interest." Last week Hizbullah launched an assault in Arsal's outskirts that managed to oust al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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's jihadists from the area. Militants from the al-Qaeda-linked, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... , and the Islamic State group are entrenched in rugged mountains along the Lebanese-Syrian border. The Lebanese army regularly shells their positions while Hizbullah and the Syrian army have engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border. |
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