| I think this means the Al Nusra/ISIS hard boys. |
...
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...
said in comments published in An Nahar newspaper on Monday.
The source said that the party "is dealing with the retreat as a tactic... we will not take control of the positions deserted by gunnies without a wide attack that cleanses the area from takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
gunnies."
| "They might've booby-trapped the place. It's what they do, ya know -- and none o'us wanna go ta Paradise just yet." |
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 forces of Evil 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
Light of the Alawites...
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.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
the Lebanese army denied any attempt to engage in battles outside Leb's border.
A high-ranking military source told al-Joumhouria newspaper that "the army will not get involved in the much-anticipated al-Qalamoun battle as it will be on Syrian territories."
The source denied any coordination between the Lebanese army and Hizbullah backed by the Syrian forces. It stressed that the Lebanese troops "are fully carrying out their duties along the border to protect the country from the repercussions of the Qalamoun battle."
"We are ready for any sudden assault.