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| Three Arrested in Bekaa, Sidon over Suspected Terror Ties |
| 2017-04-05 |
[An Nahar] Security agencies on Tuesday enjuggedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! three people in two separate operations in the Bekaa governorate and the southern city of Sidon, state-run National News Agency reported. "State Security arrested the Syrians A. Kh. R. and N. R. in the Baalbek district towns of Btedei and Deir al-Ahmar and they confessed to belonging to al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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," NNA said. The two detainees also confessed that they had fought alongside the terrorist groups in the Eastern Mountain Range. They were later handed over to the relevant judicial authorities via the army's Intelligence Directorate. NNA described the detainee N. R. as an official of al-Nusra Front, Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate, noting that he goes by the nom de guerre al-Wahsh (The Beast). Separately, General Security intelligence agents arrested the Paleostinian A. A. in Sidon's al-Sitt Nafisa neighborhood on suspicion of "communicating with terrorist groups." |
| Posted by:Fred |