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| Three Charged with Involvement in al-Qaa Suicide Attacks |
| 2016-07-15 |
| [AnNahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Thursday charged three suspects, including a detainee, with involvement in the unprecedented multiple suicide kabooms that rocked the Christian border town of al-Qaa in late June, state-run National News Agency reported. The three were charged with "staging acts of terror, carrying out two waves of suicide kabooms in the town of al-Qaa, murdering and attempting to murder a number of civilians and other individuals, and sabotaging public and private property," NNA said. The case has been referred to First Military Examining Magistrate Riad Abu Ghida, the agency added. Al-Qaa is a predominantly Christian town nestled in a hilly border area that has been shaken by violence since Syria's conflict erupted in 2011. Four jacket wallahs hit the town before dawn on June 27 and another four suicide bombers carried out an evening attack, killing five people and wounding 28 others. The site of the dawn blasts lies on a main road linking the Syrian town of al-Qusayr to Leb's eastern Bekaa Valley. Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said the bombers came from 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.... group's bastion in the Syrian province of Raqa while 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... chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has said that they came from the IS posts in the outskirts of the nearby border town of Arsal. Leb's army has fought off jihadist factions along the frontier and has sought to clamp down on local cells operating in the area. Syrian Held for Collaborating with Syria-Based 'Terrorist Groups' [AnNahar] A Syrian man has been tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on charges of communicating and collaborating with Syria-based terrorist groups, General Security announced on Wednesday. "As part of its surveillance operations and follow-up on the activities of terrorist groups and their sleeper cells, the General Directorate of General Security has apprehended a Syrian national for his communication with terrorist groups," it said in a statement. "During interrogation, he confessed to having ties and contacts with terrorist groups and that he was involved in the activities of providing and transferring arms, ammunition and funds in Leb with the aim of smuggling them into Syria," General Security added. "Efforts are underway to arrest the rest of the culprits," it said. The country has been on high alert since the unprecedented suicide kabooms that hit the Christian border town of al-Qaa in late June. Scores of people have been arrested in a major crackdown on Syrian refugee encampments and gatherings that followed the attacks. Al-Qaa's blasts occurred after the arrest of several 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.... -linked cells plotting bombings in the country and amid a flurry of media reports about possible attacks during the holy month of Ramadan. |
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