...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 other areas in the North have lately traveled to Syria to join the holy warrior 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, highly-informed security officials said.
The officials, who were not identified, told As Safir daily that the fighters headed to Syria via Turkey in the past weeks.
The majority of the young men, whose ages range between 19 and 22, are students and traveled to Turkey under the excuse of going there for tourism, the officials said.
They ruled out the presence of holy warrior officials in Tripoli for the mobilization of men to fight alongside the IS, saying their recruitment is taking place via the internet.
But As Safir stressed that the latest investigations carried out by security forces indicate that an IS official based in Tripoli is contacting the men and securing their transfer to Syria via Turkey.
The newspaper quoted the father of one of the fighters as saying that his son told him he was heading to Beirut to spend a few days in the capital.
But he lost contact with the young men, who later telephoned his father saying he was now ?at the (battle) front in (the Kurdish border town of) Kobane along with jihadists.?
A security official told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named last month that the IS and Syria's 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, are actively trying to recruit among disaffected youth in impoverished areas of northern Leb.
Many Sunnis are convinced that the army and the government are dominated by 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...
, which has sent its fighters to Syria to help troops loyal to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
against the Sunni rebels trying to topple him.