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| Prominent IS Member Arrested in Northern Bekaa | |
| 2015-05-17 | |
[AnNahar] The army locked awayYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Saturday morning a prominent member 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, reported the National News Agency. It said that he was arrested in Ain al-Shaab between the towns of al-Labweh and Arsal as he was fleeing the region to the North. NNA later revealed his name as Abdul Rahman al-Bazerbashi, 21, also known as grandson of al-Baghdadi.
...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... and northeastern border town of Arsal. Several suspected IS members have been arrested in recent months throughout Leb. In August, 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 .. ... Front groups overran Arsal where they engaged in battles with the army. They withdrew after a short round of fighting, but kidnapped in their wake a number of servicemen. A few were released, four were executed, while the rest remain held. Since the conflict in neighboring Syria broke out in 2011, Leb has faced mounting spill-over threats, first from the millions of refugees pouring across the border and increasingly from jihadists. | |
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