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| SANA: Arms, Narcotics, SIM Cards Seized on Lebanon-Syria Border |
| 2012-01-02 |
| [An Nahar] Syrian authorities on Saturday seized "quantities of weapons and over 1,000 narcotic tablets near Sweid bridge on the Syrian-Lebanese border and in both cities of al-Qusayr and Tal Kalakh in Homs" near the border with Leb, Syria's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... SANA reported Sunday. "The weapons included PKM (machineguns), 14 anti-tank shells, 14 RPGs and various rifles," SANA said. Authorities also seized "Alfa-type Lebanese (mobile phone) SIM cards," the news agency added. Thousands of Syrian refugees have decamped to Leb as the state cracks down on a popular revolt against the Assad regime, now in its tenth month. The Syrian army last month laced the Lebanese border with landmines in a bid to curb arms smuggling and hampering army defectors and refugees from fleeing. Syrian troops have also staged deadly incursions into border villages in neighboring Leb, the last of which was on Tuesday, when three Lebanese men were killed by Syrian gunfire in Wadi Khaled. The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... estimated earlier this month that more than 5,000 people have been killed in the crackdown since protests against the Assad regime began in mid-March. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 See also TOPIX > [Daily Star] HEZBOLLAH WARNS SYRIA CHAOS COULD HIT LEBANON. and * SAME > AL-QAEDA INFILTRATED EXTREMIST GROUPS [circa 20] IN LEBANON: MP [Baath Party MO Asssem Qanso]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-02 21:58 |