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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
More Arrests as Army Clampdown on Militants Continues
2014-10-31
[AnNahar] The army said on Thursday that it has tossed in the clink
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
a Lebanese man who admitted to smuggling arms to jihadists taking position on the Lebanese-Syrian border as the military rounded up dozens in its clampdown on Lion of Islams.

Abdullah Mahmoud al-Hujairi was apprehended in the area of Wadi Hmeid in the northeastern border town of Arsal, said an army communique.

He admitted to smuggling weapons and food to the bully boyz on the outskirts of Arsal, it added.

Also Thursday, the state-run National News Agency said the military arrested 13 suspects in the town of al-Dreeb in the northern Akkar district.

NNA said that three of the suspects are Lebanese nationals.

The remaining are Syrians, including the leader of an gang that engaged in battles in the village of al-Hosn in central Syria.

The army said in its communique that the number of suspects rounded up during raids in northern Leb on Wednesday reached 50.

Nine of them are Lebanese, one is Paleostinian and the others are Syrians, it added.

The Lebanese army has been carrying out large-scale raids since weekend battles with fighters in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
and the region of Koura in search for suspects. Despite the arrest of scores of Lion of Islams, several of them have fled.

The battle between the Lebanese army and Death Eaters in northern Leb was widely expected after members of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, launched several attacks over the past weeks in areas on the border with Syria.

Army units continued on Thursday clamping down on gunnies involved in the town of Bhannine Akkar as Army chief General Jean Qahwaji inspected military positions in Tripoli and Akkar.

An army reconnaissance drone accompanied the operation.
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