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| Popular Nasserite Organization Chief Warns of Sectarian Strife in Sidon |
| 2013-06-20 |
| [An Nahar] Popular Nasserite Organization head Osama Saad stressed on Wednesday that the security deterioration in the southern city of Sidon endangers the civil peace and aims at creating a sectarian civil war. He expressed regret in a presser over the security, stability and economy losses in the city, a day after festivities erupted between Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and the Hizbullah-affiliated Resistance Brigades in the suburb of Abra. "The attack launched by al-Asir supporters forced people to evacuate their homes," Saad said. The official reject attempts to involve Sidon in "sectarian sedition." Saad slammed "those who intervened to protect people who aim at destabilizing the situation in the city," accusing al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement and other Islamists of participating in Tuesday's incidents. Clashes erupted on Tuesday afternoon between supporters of Asir, the imam of Sidon's Bilal bin Rabah Mosque, and the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... Brigades in the Sidon neighborhood of Abra, leaving at least one person dead and four others maimed. The Lebanese army deployed in Sidon as the violence comes amid soaring sectarian tensions in Leb that have escalated because of the raging war in neighboring Syria. The army said several people were maimed by the gunfire. Asir, who espouses an austere form of Sunni Islam, is known for his opposition to Hizbullah. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I thought the City Elders of NOT-ZION SIDON denied the presence of Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra in their city??? * FYI WORLD NEWS > [CNN.com] ANALYST: AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE IN SYRIA [Al-Nusra] IS THE BEST-EQUIPPED BRANCH OF THE GROUP. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-06-20 01:01 |