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| Fierce Flita Clashes Leave 5 Hizbullah Fighters, 6 Nusra Militants Dead |
| 2015-01-04 |
| [AnNahar] The al-Qaeda-affiliated 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 has attacked posts controlled by 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... and the Syrian Army in the town of Fleita in the Syrian Qalamun region on Saturday, killing five Hizbullah members and several Syrian soldiers while sustaining six deaths. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Saturday that ?fierce festivities are ongoing since early morning between Hizbullah and the Syrian Army on one side 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 .. ... Front on the other in Qalamun's Flita outskirts.? According to LBCI TV, al-Nusra Front turbans attacked the positions overnight. Al-Nusra stated on the twitter account of its Qalamun branch that ?the Front took control of Hizubllah's al-Masroub post in Flita's outskirts.? Hizbullah-run al-Manar TV however denied al-Nusra's claims and reported that ?the shelling was focused on al-Masroub post in Flita, but the al-Nusra attack was not surprising.? ?The festivities went on for hours but the attack was eventually repulsed and the gunnies retreated to Tal al-Hariq, after Reports also stated that Hizbullah members Ali Bakri, Fadl Faqih, Hamza Ammar, Mohammed al-Hajj Hassan and Hadi Hassan Nour al-Din were killed in the battles. Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... al-Nusra announced on Twitter that its fighters planted landmines near posts controlled by Hizbullah and the Lebanese army. ?The engineering team planted mines in the areas near the Iranian (Hizbullah) and the Nusayri (Syrian) army in Qalamun,? the group said in a tweet. LBCI later reported that heavy festivities erupted between Hizbullah and al-Nusra Front on the outskirts of Flita. Flita is just across the Lebanese border to Arsal, a crossing point 20 kilometers to the northwest which rebels and refugees have used regularly. Hizbullah is a close ally of the Syrian regime and has been fighting alongside government troops against an uprising there. Its involvement has helped the army to recapture key territory, but drawn the ire of many in Leb. The Lebanese army has been battling the Syria-based Islamist turbans who are entrenched on the mostly non-existent border between Leb and Syria since several months. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Is not the jelly it's the old maids what are doing the damage. /G(r)oms dentist. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-04 16:30 |
| #3 What do you have against jalapeno jelly? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-04 14:39 |
| #2 Please no more for him, you should see from my eyes. /G(r)oms dentist. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-04 06:49 |
| #1 obama won't claim credit for this but his dithering regarding Assad has resulted in tens of thousands of fatalities of hard line Islamists, Hezbollah, Iranian guards, Iraqi Shiite militia and Paleo groups. Of course more than a hundred thousand civilians also died. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-01-04 00:58 |