As Safir newspaper reported that in 2014 around 200 Lebanese youth from the north, most of them between 18 22, headed to Syria to join rebels.
The daily said that some of the youth are joining 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....
jihadist group in Syria, while others join 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 in the Syrian al-Qalamoun.
The report continues that around 11 of them were killed in suicide kabooms in Syria.
Unofficial statistics show that 65 Lebanese people have been so far killed in Syria and Iraq, 13 in the Syrian border town of Tal Kalakh, two in the northern Paleostinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared and around 10 people from the Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern district of Akkar, while fighting alongside the Syrian army.
A security source revealed in comments to As Safir newspaper that a suspicious act is being prepared for the northern 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...
, praising the cooperation of the residents with the army.
The source said that the security situation is under control, expressing fear of attempts to destabilize the north through suicide attacks by members who belong to ISIL and 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 in a spurt of evenhandedness: |
...
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...
fighters have also been aiding troops loyal to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
against rebels trying to topple him.
Lebanese are deeply divided between supporters of Syria's regime and backers of the Syrian uprising.