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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Leb Army Arrests Nusra Member who Executed Soldier in 2014
2015-11-28
[AnNahar] The Army Intelligence tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
al-Qaeda linked 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 member, Ali Ahmed al-Lakkis, who had executed soldier Mohammed Hamiyeh in the wake of the Arsal festivities in 2014, the LBCI said on Friday.

Lakkis, an expert at preparing explosives and close to the so-called emir of al-Nusra Front in Qalamoun Abu Malik al-Talli, was caught with a fake Syrian passport at the Rafik Hariri International Airport, LBCI added.

In September 2014, al-Nusra executed Hamiyeh who was held captive together with other soldiers and servicemen.

He was executed with "several bullets" according to a Nusra leader in Syria's Qalamun.

Hamiyeh was among nine Lebanese security personnel who featured in a video posted by the Front on August 23, 2014 in which he was the only one donning army fatigues as the rest appeared in Internal Security Forces uniforms.

The troops were kidnapped during deadly festivities in early August between the army and Nusra and 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....
gunnies in and around the northeastern border town of Arsal.

Nineteen troops were killed in the fighting as 35 soldiers and coppers were taken hostage. The Front later released seven security personnel who were in its custody while the IS has executed two army troops.
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