| Attempting to be the anvil against the Syrian Army-Hizb'allah hammer? |
Speaker Nabih
KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
stressed on Sunday in comments published in the pan Arab daily al-Hayat that Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
should engage in the Qalamoun battle alongside the Lebanese army.
"The Syrian gunnies are present on Lebanese territories and control 600 kilometers on the outskirts of Arsal and other regions, where they are killing people," Berri's visitors quoted him as saying.
He pointed out that "as long as they are occupying a Lebanese land then I support the resistance's endeavors to free it."
"We have no doubts that the battle will flareup at some point."
Berri told his visitors that the "Lebanese army's role is to safeguard the Lebanese towns and not enter Syria to engage in battles with gunnies."
The speaker voiced fear that the Lebanese will be divided over the Qalamoun battle and Hizbullah's role in it, but he reiterates that "the aim is to get rid of the Syrian gunnies and prevent them from entering Leb."
For his part, Syrian Social Nationalist Party MP Marwan Fares told the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper that the Lebanese army is deploying heavily in the area.
"The battle could start in hours," he told the daily.
Fares expressed fears of the residents in the border region of al-Qaa in the northern Bekaa, near the Syrian Qalamoun town, from the expected battle with jihadists.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
he stressed that the parties present in the area, in particular Hizbullah and the SSNP and the Baath party, are ready to aid the Lebanese army in its battle against terrorism.
Al-Nusra Front announced on Sunday via its account on Twitter the end of the training of its troops, who are currently deployed on al-Qalamoun mountain peaks.
Fighters linked to the 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Syrian al-Qalamoun have been allegedly mobilizing and moving closer to the border with Leb ahead of a battle along the country's eastern border.
The Lebanese army frequently festivities with the turbans in their hideouts near the Syria border.
The IS, which controls several areas in Syria and Iraq, aims to spread to Leb as its fighters position in the outskirts of Bekaa towns bordering Syria and the Lebanese army is in adamant efforts to stop their efforts to infiltrate the country.
ISIL and al-Qaeda-affiliate al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-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 .. ...
Front are battling in Qalamoun the regime of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
and Hizbullah forces alongside each other, with support from some smaller Islamist rebel groups.
Despite ideological similarities, the two groups are opposed and in conflict with each other in other parts of Syria, particularly in the north.