[AnNahar] More than a dozen young men have headed from the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole in southern Leb to Syria to join the Lion of Islam 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....
group, al-Akhbar daily reported on Thursday.
The newspaper quoted their families and the Paleostinian factions at the camp as saying that around 15 men traveled on Sunday to
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
from where they headed to Raqqa, the IS's de facto capital in northern Syria.
Scores of fighters have headed from Leb to Syria to join rebels seeking to topple the Syrian regime.
| Scores means nobody knows how many set off for the Caliphate, and how many just joined Lebanon's lucrative drug gangs. |