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| Army Arrests 5 Suspects in Major Search Operation East of Sidon |
| 2013-12-20 |
| [An Nahar] Lebanese Army Commandos carried out major raids on Thursday in the Sidon neighborhood of Abra in search for gunnies, state-run National News Agency reported. "As part of the preventative security measures the army is taking in all Lebanese regions, army units backed by a surveillance aircraft staged a major search operation this morning in the groves, valleys and forests situated east of the city of Sidon," an army statement said in the evening. The operation was carried out to determine whether there are any "gunnies, weapons hideouts or runaways" in the area, said the army statement. "Five suspects were tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and handed over to the relevant authorities which will interrogate them under the supervision of the judiciary," it added. Earlier, NNA said the commandos presumed that the suspects were located in the areas of Wadi Sharhabil in Abra, Kfarfalous and Besri. Voice of Leb radio (93.3) later reported that the army arrested five people during the raids. On Monday, the army identified the assailants of one of the attacks on the military in the southern city of Sidon, saying however that two suspects have escaped. An army communique said three suspects were passing on foot through a checkpoint at al-Awwali bridge at Sidon's entrance at 9:00 pm Sunday when a soldier asked for their identification papers. One of the suspects threatened him with a grenade, which blew up when the soldier opened fire on him, it said. The suspect was killed and two soldiers at the checkpoint were maimed. The other two suspects escaped. Forty five minutes later, a Paleostinian went kaboom!near an army checkpoint in the Majdelyoun area, killing himself and a sergeant, and wounding a soldier. Two other Lebanese suspects, who were in the Envoy four-wheeler carrying them, also died when members of the checkpoint opened fire on them. |
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