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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Army Arrests Defected Syrian Officer in Riyaq, Arms Smuggler in al-Qaa
2014-12-05
[AnNahar ] Four Syrian suspects were tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
Thursday by the army in separate operations in the Bekaa region.

?An army intelligence patrol raided an apartment inhabited by Syrians in the New Riyaq area and arrested three people, including defected officer A. M.,? state-run National News Agency reported.

It identified the other two suspects as Z. M. and M. M.

In a separate operation, army intelligence agents arrested Syrian runaway Amer Saleh Amer in the Bekaa border area of Masharii al-Qaa near Syria's border, NNA said.

?He is wanted on arrest warrants related to smuggling arms across the border and fighting against the Lebanese army,? the agency added.

Dozens of Syrian suspects have been arrested in Leb since the eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011, but the Lebanese army intensified its crackdown earlier this year following deadly festivities with Lion of Islam groups in the Bekaa border town of Arsal and the northern city of Tripoli
...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...
Top Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
official Abdullah al-Rifai, who is a defected colonel, was arrested several weeks ago by the army in Arsal's outskirts.

Around 11 days ago, the army arrested at one of its checkpoints an Iraqi woman identified as Saja al-Dulaimi, whom Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq identified as a divorcee of His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, the chief of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group that has seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria.

The army also arrested this week the Syrian wife of top al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front official Anas Sharkas, according to NNA.

The IS and 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 .. ...
had in August kidnapped several Lebanese troops and coppers during deadly festivities with the army in and around the town of Arsal.

Around 27 servicemen remain in the custody of the two groups while three have been executed.

The detained women and the Syrians arrested in Leb in recent days could potentially serve as bargaining chips with the kidnappers.

Lebanese authorities have been under intense pressure from the families of the captured men to negotiate their release.
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