...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, the military announced.
An army communique said troops responded to the 4:00 am attack by opening fire on the perpetrators, adding that military units were pursuing them to arrest them.
Local TV and radio stations said two other soldiers were maimed in the attack and taken to al-Qobbe hospital in Tripoli.
They identified the dead soldier as Mohammed Hussein.
The attack most likely came in retaliation to the army's clampdown on Death Eaters on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.
The Sunni bully boyz from 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 and 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....
group have taken soldiers and coppers as hostage and have killed three of them.
The spillover from the Syrian war has raised sectarian tensions in Leb, where Sunnis and Shiites back opposing sides of the neighboring conflict.
The bully boyz have been trying to punish the Iranian-backed Shiite Hizbullah
...
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...
because its fighters are battling alongside forces loyal to Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
They have grabbed credit for bombings in Leb that have targeted Shiite communities. But they have also increasingly targeted the Lebanese army itself, seeing it as aligned with Hizbullah fighters.
Some Lebanese Sunnis complain that the army is biased, because it has only cracked down on Sunni bully boyz heading to Syria, and not on Hizbullah fighters.