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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Terrorists Confess to Plot to Establish Islamist Emirate in North
2014-11-12
[AnNahar] Several terrorist detainees have confessed to a plot by 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....
of Iraq and the Levant to stage a ground offensive and control several regions in northern Leb to announce the establishment of the Islamic State in Leb.

A high-ranking military source told al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Tuesday that Imad Jomaa, Ahmed Miqati and several other detainees admitted that the ground offensive aimed at opening a corridor to the sea across northern Leb by connecting Arsal with Hermel, Dinniyeh, Akkar and ultimately the coastal city of 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...
Imad Jomaa is a member of the al-Qaeda-affiliate al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front whose arrest sparked the Arsal unrest in August, and Miqati was jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in October in the town of Assoun in the northern district of Dinniyeh during a deadly army raid on an apartment that he and several forces of Evil had been residing in.

The source told the newspaper that the detainees are linked to ISIL and not the Qaeda-affiliated 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 take direct orders from the command.

"The group's kingpin in Leb is being pursued by the army and will be arrested soon," the source said.

The gunnies also were planning to carry out a wide-scale assault against the army and seeking to recruit more soldiers to increase defections from the military.

The army has come under growing attacks across Leb by forces of Evil who accuse it of colluding with Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
in its intervention in the Syrian conflict on the side of the regime.

In October, eighteen suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group were indicted on charges of aiming to set up an "emirate" in northern Leb.

Fifteen of the accused are on the run.

Tripoli was rocked by three days of devastating fighting between troops and gunnies last month that left several soldiers and civilians dead.

The gunnies are suspected of having links to al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, which opposes IS inside Syria although they have an ambivalent relationship in Leb.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Meanwhile, not to be outdone in North Lebanon ...

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [AlGemeine.Net] ISIS DECLARES "CALIPHATE OF SINAI", CALLS FOR ATTACKING ISRAEL'S EILAT [Demona Nucplex].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-11-12 22:31  

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