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| 'Marwan Hadid Brigades' Claims Responsibility for Weekend Hermel Rocket Attacks | |
| 2013-08-21 | |
The previously unknown group grabbed credit for the attack in a statement and video aired on Youtube. On Monday, President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... expressed his "grave concern" with the shelling that took place in Hermel, tasking the Army Command with "determining the location from where they were fired in order to tackle the situation with the appropriate means." Five rockets landed in and around Hermel, a Hizbullah stronghold, on Sunday, a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity. "Two rockets landed in the town of Hermel, in an area between the Mabarrat teaching association and the Masharii al-Qaa area, causing no casualties," the source said. "Another three rockets have landed now on the outskirts of Hermel," he added. It was not immediately clear whether the rockets were launched from inside Leb or from across the border in strife-torn Syria, said the source, although state-run National News Agency said they were fired from Syrian territory. Hermel and other areas of eastern Leb, a bastion of Hizbullah, have been hit by several rocket attacks launched from Syria in recent months. The repeated violations prompted Suleiman in June to file a memorandum to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... and Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing.... | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 I swear I thought it read Weekend Hormel Rocket attacks.... somethings are beyond the pale, striking at the Vienna sausage supply would be such. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-08-21 16:24 |
| #1 "Marwan Hadid Brigades" Not to be confused with the "Brigades of Marwan Hadid". |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-08-21 10:41 |