Lebanon identifies suspects in Blue Helmet's killing https://t.co/k5mGYsUWDm
— Naharnet (@Naharnet) December 23, 2022
Lebanese Sherlocks have identified suspects in the fatal shooting of an Irish United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
peacekeeper whose vehicle came under fire earlier this month, a judicial official told AFP on Thursday.Private Sean Rooney, 23, was killed and three others injured on December 14 when their UN Interim Force in
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....(UNIFIL) vehicle was attacked near the village of al-Aqbiya in Lebanon's south.
The area is a stronghold of
Hezbollah.One of the injured was medevaced home to Ireland on Wednesday for further treatment.
"The investigation has been able to identify suspects but so far none has been arrested and the security services are still looking for them," said the judicial official who could not be further identified.
The U.N. patrol "was the target of gunfire from at least two people" when it arrived in al-Aqbiyeh, according to the same source.
Citing preliminary findings, the source said the incident "was premeditated and the patrol was surveilled and followed by a car carrying gunnies".