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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanese security forces bust ISIS sleeper cell near Syrian border
2019-01-10
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese security forces busted an 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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) sleeper cell inside the border-city of ’Arsal, today, a military communique from east Leb read.

According to the communique, the Lebanese security forces received a tip from locals about a group of Syrians that were plotting to carry out an attack on an army checkpoint in the ’Arsal District.

The Lebanese security forces not only foiled the plot, but they also placed in durance vile
You have the right to remain silent...
all of the Islamic State members that were active in this sleeper cell.

’Arsal was partially controlled by the Islamic State and Jabhat 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 .. ...
between the years of 2014 and 2018; however, it was later liberated by the Lebanese Armed Forces after a large-scale operation in east Leb.
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