Two members of the Lebanese Security Forces were killed in an exchange of gunfire with snuffies in the north of the country late on Saturday, the army said.
They were killed when snuffies opened fire on an army checkpoint in the northwest area of Araman, the army said on Sunday. One krazed killer was killed, while several fled.
In a separate incident on Saturday, Lebanese security forces killed at least six snuffies during a heavy exchange of fire with an gang in northeast Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers..., close to the Syrian border, security sources said.
Three members of the Lebanese security forces were maimed in the clash, which began after Lebanese forces raided a house in the Wadi Khaled area, where the group that was suspected of planning attacks was holed up, the sources said.
Security incidents across the country have increased in recent weeks, as the country has been pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and a political vacuum following the resignation of the caretaker government over an Aug. 4 port blast, which left nearly 200 people dead.
Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab
...who really would like to retire, if only some other sucker could be fooled into taking his place...
strongly condemned the attacks in a statement on Sunday, and called for the feuding political blocs to rapidly form a new government capable of addressing Lebanon's myriad problems.The country is on edge amid fears violence could escalate and compound the country's crises.
Sources told Rooters that the group in Wadi Khaled included Syrians and Lebanese, adding that the scale of the clash, in which snuffies fired rocket-propelled grenades, prompted the Lebanese army to cordon off the area.
The sources said the group included people linked to the krazed killer Khaled al-Talawi who was killed this month in a shootout with security forces.
Talawi was described as a former member of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
and leader of a cell behind the killing in August of three people in north Lebanon.
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