[MAGHAREBIA] As part of the new measures to confront extremism, Algeria will increase control over religious associations, El Watan reported on Thursday (September 4th).
The government will impose stricter rules for the creation of religious associations. Algeria also plans to monitor their financing and budgets.
Religious associations make up more than 16% of the 92,627 NGOs in the country.
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[MAGHAREBIA] New concern over the border area between Libya, Tunisia and Algeria is leading security officials from the three countries to work together to stem the threat.
The issue came to the fore following claims in the Tunisian press about recently discovered smuggling tunnels linking Algeria, Libya and Tunisia.
Citing Al Sarih on August 17th, Algerie360.com reported that Algerian security forces had secured and neutralised several of these purported underground passages.
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[AnNahar] Egypt's deposed President Mohammed Morsi will be tried on charges of giving Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... documents relating to national security, the state prosecutor said on Saturday.
The Islamist former head of state already faces the death penalty in several trials, and his supporters have been the target of a deadly crackdown by the authorities since his ouster in July 2013.
President al Sissi's government clearly wants to be very, very certain Mr. Morsi never walks the streets of Egypt again.
No date has yet been set for the new trial for Morsi, who is suspected of providing the sensitive documents to the energy-rich Gulf state during his single year of turbulent rule.
Morsi will go on trial for having "handed over to Qatari intelligence documents linked to national security... in exchange for one million dollars (772,000 euros)", the prosecutor said in a statement.
Ten other defendants will be tried alongside Morsi, including his former secretary Amin El-Serafi, the ex-director of his office Ahmed Abdel Atti and Ibrahim Mohammed Helal, who is identified as a chief editor of the Doha-based Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... network.
In the statement, the prosecutor said Morsi and Abdel Atti gave El-Serafi "extremely sensitive documents concerning the army, its deployment and weaponry" and he in turn gave them to Helal and to a Qatari intelligence operative.
It said that intermediaries, who were not identified, were used to send the documents to Helal and the Qataris.
The papers included documents from the "general and military intelligence offices of the State Security" apparatus, the prosecutor said.
Morsi, El-Serafi and Abdel Atti are all behind bars. Helal's whereabouts are unknown.
In March the interior ministry accused El-Serafi of handing over to an Al-Jazeera chief editor and to Morsi's Moslem Brotherhood documents regarding the army, its weaponry and troop deployments.
Relations between Egypt and Qatar soured after Morsi's ouster, as Cairo criticized Doha's backing for the Brotherhood -- designated a terrorist group after Morsi's overthrow on July 3, 2013.
Qatar has denounced Egypt's crackdown on Morsi supporters which has left more than 1,400 people dead since his ouster.
Thousands more have been detained and imprisoned, and hundreds have been sentenced to death in speedy mass trials.
Morsi is already on trial in three separate cases -- one over the killing of protesters during his presidency, another for allegedly conspiring with foreign powers including Iran to destabilize Egypt, and a third over a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising that ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... Morsi could face the death penalty if convicted.
Egypt has also jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! Al-Jazeera journalists on charges of helping the Brotherhood, triggering an international outcry.
A very small international outcry, though. Mostly in the pages of Al Jazeera.
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[Iran Press TV] Bahraini regime has extended the custody of a prominent human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist, Maryam al-Khawaja, despite a UN call for her release.
According to her lawyer, Mohammed al-Jishi, a Bahraini court ruled on Saturday that the rights activist remain in jail for another ten days.
Bahrain has extended her custody despite the United Naitons' concern about the "ongoing violations" of freedom of expression in the Persian Gulf country.
On Friday, the UN expressed serious concern about Maryam's arrest and called on Bahraini regime to release her and other detained activists.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] In the great jihadi funding bazaar that is the Gulf state of Kuwait, there's a terror finance option for every pocket, from the private foundations dealing in tens of millions to the more retail end of the market. Give enough for 50 sniper bullets (50 dinars, about £110), promises the al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked holy man tweeting under the name "jahd bmalk", and you will earn "silver status". Donate 100 dinars to buy eight badly needed mortar rounds, and he'll make you a "gold status donor".
As the jihadi funders hand out loyalty cards, the West has belatedly realised that some of its supposed friends in the Gulf have been playing the disloyalty card. Had Kuwait not been freed by American, British and allied troops in 1991, it would presumably now still be the "19th province" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But the emirate has repaid the Western blood and treasure spent in its liberation by becoming, in the words of David Cohen, the US undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, the "epicentre of funding for terrorist groups in Syria".
Islamic State (Isil), with its newly conquered territory, oilfields and bank vaults, no longer needs much foreign money. But its extraordinarily swift rise to this point, a place where it threatens the entire region and the West, was substantially paid for by the allies of the West. Isil's cash was raised in, or channelled through, Kuwait and Qatar
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inhospitable, desert and mountains. It's impossible to build a real or virtual fence in these areas...or so I've been told by our betters in Washington. Can't be done.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The BNP has alleged that the Awami League government did not believe in democracy and that is why an environment existed across the country for militancy to flourish.
"After al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... 's video message, it is clear that militancy is flourishing during the Awami League government. They [the Awami League] have created the atmosphere because Awami League does not believe in democracy," Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the BNP, said yesterday.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Ruling Awami League's joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif has said Tarique Rahman ...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office... might be linked with the global network of gunnies al-Qaeda's announcement of using Bangladesh as their base.
The Awami League leader made the remarks while talking to news hounds after distributing relief goods among families affected by fire and river erosion at Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia on Saturday afternoon.
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[Ynet] A French journalist held hostage for months by Lions of Islam in Syria says one of his abductors was a Frenchie suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum earlier this year.
French magazine Le Point on Saturday quotes its news hound Nicolas Henin as saying he was tortured by Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchie who had spent time with Lions of Islam in Syria.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Saturday not only vowed to resign from his post but also to leave politics for good if allegations hurled at him and his late brother in Parliament were proven to be true.
At the start of today's presser, a disgruntled Nisar said that this would be shortest presser of his career. He also requested news hounds not to ask questions at the end of the presser.
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[HINDUSTANTIMES] Islamabad will not push for revival of the dialogue after New Delhi called off foreign secretary-level talks objecting to the Pakistain high commissioner meeting Kashmiri separatists, said Sartaj Aziz, adviser to the Pakistain Prime Minister on security and foreign affairs.
"Talks were suspended by your government and the ball is squarely in India's court," Aziz said over the phone from Islamabad.
The Egyptian news website al-Dostor reported on Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is set to announce the end of the unity agreement in place between Fatah and Hamas factions.
The report states that he will make the announcement on Sunday at a meeting of the Arab League.
Nobody likes a winner
Kind of hard to be unified when the other guys were preparing a coup to overthrow one with incidental assassination...again.
[Iran Press TV] A new poll has found that 30 percent of Israelis favor emigrating from Israel following recent Tel Aviv's brutal war on the besieged Gazoo Strip.
According to Israel's Channel 2, those polled said they can no longer deal with the psychological repercussions of another war.
The survey conducted by the Israeli media also shows more Israelis are now thinking of leaving the occupied Paleostinian land after having been through three wars in six years.
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They'll be replaced with immigrants who keenly understand why Israel needs to exist. From The Times of Israel:
Kandel cited figures from the Israeli integration minister showing that, as of August 31, 4,566 Jews had left France for Israel this year.
This was ahead of Ukraine (3,252), Russia (2,632) and the United States (2,218).
“We will get close to 6,000 departures from France in 2014,” added Kandel.
He cited a “climate of anti-Semitism that is losing its taboo” as well as economic difficulties in France, which is suffering from zero growth and record high unemployment.
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30% seems high. It would seem that because of the rise of anti-semitism in the world that Jewish people would be immigrating to Israel rather from Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Jordan is forming a special task force to deal with possible threats from the Islamic State jihadist organization within the country, according to a senior government official.
King Abdullah II has tapped Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour to head the committee, the official told Arabic daily Al-Hayat Saturday. IS has captured vast territories in neighboring Iraq and Syria, and some believe the Hashemite Kingdom may be its next target.
The news came on the heels of a report by newspaper a-Sharq al-Awsat Thursday that Jordanian security forces had incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! 71 radical activists belonging to Islamist organizations, including IS and Syria's al-Nusra Front faction, throughout the kingdom.
Abdullah II attended a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... summit of Western leaders Thursday and Friday which was heavily focused on the threat of the Islamic State. At the summit, the US and key allies agreed that the Islamic State group was a significant threat to NATO countries and that they would take on the Lions of Islam by squeezing their financial resources and going after them with military might.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... a group of Jordanian deputies demanded Wednesday that the kingdom stay out of any war against Islamic State jihadists.
Twenty-one MPs, who represent various factions in the 150-seat parliament, sent a memorandum to speaker Atef al-Tarawneh demanding "the government not involve Jordan (in the fight) against the Islamic State."
As if ISIS consults its targets on their desires in the matter.
"This war is not our war. Accordingly, we reject categorically any Jordanian contribution in a battle that is not ours," they said in the document seen by AFP.
It's this kind if thinking that got all those little kingdoms conquered by the Babylonians and the Medes & Persians and every other empire that wandered down the pike. Idiots.
"We do not want to be dragged into an international coalition," said Khalil Attia, one of the deputies who signed the memorandum.
Despite its relative stability, Jordan has faced growing tensions on the homefront with a million Syrian refugees currently residing within its borders and, experts say, a growing movement of jihadists and ultraconservative Salafis. Hundreds of Jordanians are known to have traveled to Syria to fight in the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... . Some have joined krazed killer groups, including IS.
A video posted online in April depicted a number of Jordanian IS fighters, including a child, tearing up their passports and threatening to assassinate the "tyrant," referring to the king.
Extremists have also targeted Jordan in the past. The Islamic State's precursor, known as al-Qaeda in Iraq, was founded by a Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Under his leadership, the group carried out a triple bombing on Amman hotels in 2005 that killed more than 50 people.
Wary of the possible threats Jordan has taken steps to shore up its defenses, dispatching reinforcements to its border with Iraq and expanding anti-terror laws in June.
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[HINDUSTANTIMES] A Scottish woman who travelled to Syria and married an ISIS fighter told her parents she wanted to become a martyr and would see them again on the "day of judgment".
Aqsa Mahmood left Glasgow last November and called her parents from the Turkish border before entering Syria to tell them of her intention to join the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... . Mahmood travelled through Turkey to Aleppo in Syria last year and was reported missing.
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ahhh i read the name of the father.... so she didn't just trade her name via deed poll
a new arrival. so she's not really a Western woman at all... only by accident of temporary geography. She is not Western in identity she is a foreigner. She's a muslim from south asia who just happened to be in Scotland and managed to get a passport
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A French journalist held hostage for months by hard boyz in Syria says one of his captors was a Frenchie suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum earlier this year.
French magazine Le Point on Saturday quoted its news hound Nicolas Henin as saying he was tortured by Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchie who had spent time with hard boyz in Syria.
Henin was held for a time with American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, both beheaded by hard boyz from the Islamic State group in recent weeks. He was released in April with other French journalists who had been held since June 2013.
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[AnNahar] Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq described as "excellent" the meeting of the ministerial panel tasked with following up on the case of soldiers and copperskidnapped by Islamist forces of Evil from the northeastern border town of Arsal, reported the daily An Nahar on Friday.
The minister is scheduled to travel to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... on Monday in order to follow up on the issue.
Mashnouq and General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim will head to the Gulf country to attend the Arab interior ministers' general secretariat conference.
"Only positive results can be achieved from Qatar's efforts towards Leb," the minister told An Nahar.
Later on Saturday, Voice of Leb radio (93.3) said a Qatari delegation that spent two days in Arsal had received a list of the abductors' demands, which are topped by "the release of 400 Islamist prisoners from Lebanese jails and the payment of five million dollars."
LBCI television for its part quoted judicial sources as saying that "the Qatari team has left Arsal after receiving a list of the Islamic State's demands regarding the kidnapped troops."
"Al-Nusra Front and the IS are insisting on the condition of swapping the troops for Roumieh inmates and the issue of money has entered the negotiations," LBCI added.
Qatar has been mediating the release of the captives who were kidnapped by al-Nusra Front and Islamic State forces of Evil in August.
A widely-informed Lebanese source told As Safir newspaper on Saturday that the Qatari officials had held talks recently with Nusra Front representatives in al-Qalamun.
They returned with "an impression that the forces of Evil will not harm any of the 13 captives for at least a month, but on two conditions."
The first condition was not revealed, while the second calls for the Lebanese judicial authorities to speed up the trial of Islamists held in Roumieh prison.
IS forces of Evil meanwhile hold at least 15 soldiers and coppers, said As Safir.
They have not yet met with the Qatari mediators, who had suggested that the executions of the captives halt in return for pledges from Lebanese authorities.
The nature of the pledges were not disclosed.
A ministerial panel following up on the case of the kidnapped troops convened on Friday as the Islamic State group accused Qatari mediators of maneuvering and "obstructing the negotiations" before eventually meeting with them.
Earlier on Friday, the so-called Qalamun branch of the Islamic State said in a statement: "After having agreed to hold indirect negotiations with the Lebanese government ... (the IS) was surprised that the Qatari side ... is procrastinating in the issue of meeting the IS' negotiators."
The group held the Qatari delegation directly responsible for "obstructing the negotiations and for the lives of the troops."
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the IS later issued a statement confirming that it did meet with Qatari mediators and that "other parties" were obstructing the talks.
The group also announced that the Qatari delegation will be "the only channel of negotiations" and that it handed it a list of its demands.
The delegation had arrived overnight Thursday in Leb before immediately heading to the Bekaa town of Arsal, which borders Syria.
Around 36 Lebanese soldiers and coppers were taken hostage last month after IS and Nusra gunnies overran Arsal during deadly battles with the Lebanese army.
Leb has been reportedly seeking the help of Qatar and Turkey to ensure their safe release.
The forces of Evil have released several hostages in different stages but they have also beheaded Lebanese army sergeant Ali al-Sayyed.
The jihadists have reportedly called on the Lebanese government to release Islamist inmates from the country's largest prison in Roumieh in exchange for the captive security personnel.
[AnNahar] A policeman kidnapped by Islamists from the northeastern border town of Arsal contacted his wife on Saturday, reported al-Jadeed television.
It said that Ziad Omar telephoned his wife and urged the families of the captives to mobilize to ensure the captives' release.
He added that the hostages are being treated well.
No doubt he said exactly what his captors told him to. We know they already murdered at least one of the hostages, and that they separated the Sunnis from the rest, making "well treated" a malleable concept with an uncertain future.
Omar is being held by al-Nusra Front, said al-Jadeed.
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) later reported that captive Pierre Geagea contacted his wife.
LBCI television said that Geagea and another captive, George Khazzaqa, had contacted their relatives on Saturday morning, urging them to mobilize to pressure for their release.
He urged the families of the hostages to mobilize, stage rallies, and pressure Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... to withdraw its fighters from Syria.
A number of soldiers and coppers were kidnapped in August in light of festivities between the army and Islamists in Arsal.
Some of the captives were released at different stages, while the rest remain held by Islamists from al-Nusra Front and Islamic State.
The government tasked earlier this week a ministerial panel to follow up on the case.
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i mediators have become involved in the negotiations to release them.
The families of the captives however have refused to meet with the panel.
On Thursday, they called on Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji to "arrest all ministers and swap them for the abductees."
"We want our sons, with or without an exchange, and we all throw our support behind the army chief and we hope he will fulfill our demand," they said.
The Death Eaters are reportedly seeking to exchange the soldiers and coppers for Islamists held in Roumieh prison.
[AnNahar] The municipal chief of the northeastern border town of Arsal questioned the delay in the release of the soldiers and coppers held captive by Islamist holy warriors, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.
Ali al-Hujairi told the daily that a Syrian mediator, not a Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i one, was leading the negotiations on the release of the abductees.
Moreover, he said that the town is coming under "immense pressure due to the presence of the army, security forces, Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... members, and Syrian gunnies in the outskirts of the town."
"We cannot resist the gunnies as we support the state and army," Hujairi declared.
"We have no power over the gunnies and the interests of the residents of Arsal will be harmed," he warned.
"Arsal is being targeted, it is not occupied because the army is deployed there," he added.
He also questioned Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq's claims that Arsal needed to be liberated.
Hujairi instead called on Premier Tammam Salam, Mashnouq, Defense Minister Samir Moqbel, Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , and the Hizbullah leadership to visit the town "to see the truth for themselves."
Media reports on Friday said that Qatari mediators were negotiating the release of the captive security personnel.
A ministerial panel following up on the case of the kidnapped troops convened on Friday amid a boycott by the hostages' families, as the Islamic State group accused Qatari mediators of maneuvering and "obstructing the negotiations" before eventually meeting with them.
Earlier on Friday, the so-called Qalamun branch of the Islamic State
They've got branches now?
said in a statement: "After having agreed to hold indirect negotiations with the Lebanese government ... (the IS) was surprised that the Qatari side ... is procrastinating in the issue of meeting the IS' negotiators."
The group held the Qatari delegation directly responsible for "obstructing the negotiations and for the lives of the troops."
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the IS later issued a statement confirming that it did meet with Qatari mediators and that "other parties" were obstructing the talks.
The group also announced that the Qatari delegation will be "the only channel of negotiations" and that it handed it a list containing its demands.
The delegation had arrived overnight Thursday in Leb before immediately heading to the Bekaa town of Arsal, which borders Syria.
Around 36 Lebanese soldiers and coppers were taken hostage last month after IS and Nusra gunnies overran Arsal during deadly battles with the Lebanese army.
Taking hostages is an ancient Muslim tradition. So useful for ransom, for the pleasure of torturing and killing, for trading for one's own captives, and for controlling the current target.
Leb has been reportedly seeking the help of Qatar and Turkey to ensure their safe release.
"Please leash your pets for us!"
The bully boyz have released several hostages in different stages but they have also beheaded Lebanese army sergeant Ali al-Sayyed.
The jihadists have reportedly called on the Lebanese government to release Islamist inmates from the country's largest prison in Roumieh in exchange for the captive security personnel.
[AnNahar] Reports of an alleged deployment by Islamic State gunnies in Sannine's mountains stirred an uproar in the country on Friday, although several officials refuted the claims and the army said its measures in the area were part of "preventive security."
Ad-Diyar newspaper had on Friday morning quoted Arsal's municipal chief as saying that "members of the IS are deployed in the mountains of Zahle and Sannine."
"The Lebanese army raided a hotel in Sannine's mountains and tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! heavily armed Syrians," ad-Diyar added, noting that the military also deployed troops "all the way from Baskinta to Baqish to Sannine's mountains."
"A large number of civilian residents were seen carrying arms and deploying in the mountains to defend Baskinta, Bteghrine, Bikfaya and the highlands of Northern Metn," the newspaper alleged.
The claims prompted the army to issue a communique in which it condemned inaccurate reports that "spark unjustified fear among citizens."
The military stressed that the allegations are baseless, reassuring that its recent measures in some areas, including Baskinta, were part of "preventive security across all Lebanese regions, given the circumstances that the country is going through."
Earlier on Friday, Northern Metn MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Change and Reform bloc reassured after phone talks with the army command and the intelligence directorate that "there are no security developments in Sannine and Northern Metn's mountains but rather preventive measures by the Lebanese army."
He said troops were "inspecting the places of residence of (Syrian) refugees to make sure that there are no runaways among them."
"There is no need to panic," Kanaan added.
MP Michel Murr for his part denied "media reports about the presence of IS gunnies in the mountains of Baskinta and Sannine."
The reports come in the wake of a deadly battle that the jihadists fought against the Lebanese army in the Bekaa town of Arsal, during which they overran the town and killed and kidnapped dozens of troops and coppers.
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[Ynet] UN inspectors have gained rare access to a plant where Iran is developing centrifuges for enriching uranium as part of a transparency deal they say is giving them a "better understanding" of Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.
A confidential ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency report obtained by Rooters acknowledged that a long-running IAEA investigation into suspected nuclear arms research by Tehran was making little headway, given Tehran's lack of cooperation.
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[Iran Press TV] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... says the United States has forged a coalition of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies ready and able to defeat the ISIL terrorist organization within three years.
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Because in 3 years USA may get somebody half-way normal for POTUS?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
Zawahiri
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Iran Press TV] A new poll has found that 30 percent of Israelis favor emigrating from Israel following recent Tel Aviv's brutal war on the besieged 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Michel Aoun
[Iran Press TV] Secretary of State 
