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| 33 Syrian Gunmen Held, Arms Seized in Lebanese Border Town |
| 2012-03-05 |
| [An Nahar] The Lebanese army on Sunday set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a group of Syrian gunnies who had entered Lebanese territory via the border town of al-Qaa, seizing a car and a large cache of weapons, Leb's state-run National News Agency reported. "After the crackdown on the Syrian town of Qusayr intensified, the Lebanese army managed to arrest 33 gunnies who had entered the Lebanese area of al-Qaa Projects and were on their way to Ablah," in Leb's Bekaa Valley, Radio Voice of Leb (93.3) said. NNA also said several Syrian families decamped to neighboring Lebanese towns. As Syrian rebel fighters pulled out on Thursday from the battered Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr in the face of the regime's overwhelmingly superior fire power, loyalist forces pressed on with a crackdown on other Homs districts, forcing a lot of the central province's resident to flee to neighboring Leb. On February 29, twenty-two Syrian families arrived in Leb after fleeing Baba Amr. |
| Posted by:Fred |