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Happy Birthday to Ingrid Seynhaeve, 41 Today !
Ingrid Seynhaeve was born in Menen, Belgium. She won the Elite Look of the Year contest in 1991 and appeared on the cover of Shape magazine. Ingrid is a skilled pianist and equestrian.
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Come to think of it, Dr. Steve, Alexander and the lads may not know the code necessary to layer naughty under nice. I imagine an email request to Fred Pruitt (see Email Me link in the yellow sidebar) will elicit that particular bit of information.
[Tolo News] Following a week of heavy festivities between the Afghan cops and Taliban krazed killers, the district of Sangin in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province has been cleared of insurgency, said Ministry of Interior Spokesman, Sediq Sediqqi, on Friday.
Speaking on air with TOLOnews, Sediqqi said that more than 250 Talibs were killed in Sangin district. The Taliban launched major offensives in four districts of the province—Mosa Qala, Kajaki, Sangin and Nawzad—last week, causing several civilian causalities.
According to local official reports, the district of Sangin shouldered most of the burden from the fighting.
Sediqqi did not provide details about the exact number of civilian and Afghan force causalities, but stated that more than two-dozen Afghan officers were killed in Sangin only. Moreover, eight Taliban capos were also killed.
He added that further investigations are underway.
"Taliban first raided the local police outposts seven days ago," detailing the event. "Several foreign Death Eaters have been killed in the Sangin battle. The lesson learned from the Helmand clash is that the Taliban can no longer hold ground in Afghanistan."
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... according to the Helmand Police Chief, Abdul Qayoum Baqizoy, the Afghan forces have started a clearing operation in Sangin.
He said that they are slowly clearing the roadside mines that the Death Eaters had placed in the district.
A while ago, local Sangin officials had said that more than 800 Taliban krazed killers—including Paks and Arabs—had attacked the district.
Sediqqi claimed that Pak soldiers supported the Death Eaters in Helmand.
"We have evidence that shows that Pak soldiers were involved in the clash," he said. "We will share our concerns regarding this with the Pak government."
Pakistain borders parts of Helmand province creating border tensions between the two countries as more than 2,000 displaced families leave their homes and move across the border.
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[Tolo News] Clashes in southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... have claimed the lives of 35 civilians and maimed another 100. Residents of Helmand reported that in the initial days the Taliban stormed into their homes opening fire on the locals.
In a meeting with tribal elders from Helmand and Nirmroz provinces, Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said that Helmand has been a major target for the gunnies claiming that the festivities were caused by foreign elements. Karzai called on the Afghan Taliban to avoid bloodshed and stop cooperating with the foreigners.
"The Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and Helmand governor have reported that foreign elements were directly involved in the Helmand festivities," Karzai said. "The foreigners are fighting against us. They do not resemble Afghans, nor do they speak our languages. Our people are the victims. This war is the war of foreigners and their objectives."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... (UN) expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over the loss of civilian lives in Helmand and demanded that the warring factions avoid the massacre of civilians.
"Many civilians have bit the dust or been maimed in the war," UNAMA Spokesman Nazifullah Salarzai said. "We are strongly concerned. We ask the warring factions to keep the safety of the civilians in mind."
Ministry of Interior (MoI) and local Helmand officials have said that the situation is now under control of the security forces, emphasizing that the gunnies tolerated massive causalities in Sangin.
"Police in Sangin have tried their best to save the civilians, but most casualties were due to Taliban's direct fire and mine kabooms," MoI Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. "About 250 Taliban fighters have been killed. The district is now under the control of the security forces."
The Helmand police are clearing the homes of the people from mines that were planted by the Taliban. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Helmand residents have said that masked men are still present in the city and are killing innocent people.
"We are passing a difficult situation," a Helmand resident said. "We have lost our hands and legs in mine kabooms. Why are they killing Mohammedans?"
"They killed six to seven people two days ago and those who did not come out of their homes were killed," another Helmand resident from Sangin district said.
The clash between gunnies and Afghan forces started last Saturday in Sangin, Musa Qala, Nawzad and Kajaki districts of Helmand province. During their operation, the Afghan cops eliminated 250 gunnies and maimed another 90. Up to 25 ANA soldiers were also killed and maimed in the festivities.
Moreover, 30 ANP personnel were killed and another 40 maimed.
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BUULO BARDE, Somalia -- Djiboutian-AMISOM forces have engaged in deadly skirmish with unidentified militiamen after an attack on police station in Hiraan regional district of Buulo Barde of central Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
Residents of Buulo Barde town say, on Thursday militiamen in military fatigues targeted the police compound, reportedly killing two Djiboutian peacekeepers and Somali government soldiers. Local reports unveiled that the attackers were killed on the spot but GO was unable to verify the exact number of casualty figures from Thursday raid.
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) could not be reached for comment on the death of Djiboutian soldiers. No group has claimed credit for the attack.
Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group was dislodged from a string of strategic towns in southern and central Somalia as a result of joint military campaign.
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According to news reports from the Bakool region in southern Somalia, a fierce conflict erupted on the outskirts of Hudur, the provincial capital of the region.
The battle was initiated when African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali National Army soldiers withdrew from Hudur and were attacked by Al-Shabaab terrorist insurgents as they were passing on the periphery of the district. Although the precise numbers of casualties and losses have not yet been specified, residents nearby the town reported to Shabelle that severe fatalities were caused; judging by the sounds of the exchange of gunfire, they said.
Bakool is among the main regions where regular physical confrontations break out between the Somali National Army supported AMISOM force against the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab terrorist group operating in many areas of Somalia.
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residents nearby the town reported to Shabelle that severe fatalities were caused; judging by the sounds of the exchange of gunfire, they said.
Taking that 'logic' and considering the tendency of both African (and Arabs) to empty their magazines toward everywhere, most of Africa should have been depopulated by now.
Police in Russian republic of Dagestan have killed a suspected terrorist militant in the southeastern Khiv district.
The suspect was found by police and security forces in the village of Zakhit early on the morning of June 27. Police say he refused to surrender but let nine civilians, including four children, leave the house before opening fire. Police returned fire, killing the suspect.
Russia's National Antiterror Committee identified the man as S. Velikhanov.
The incident took place a day after two other alleged militants were killed in two separate incidents in Dagestan.
[IsraelTimes] Two French Jews were sent to prison for placing a bomb in 2012 under the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris.
Every group has its hotheads, but this lot went beyond the pale.
The two men, identified only by their last names, Bismuth and Benhamou, were sentenced on June 20 by a judge from the Versailles Correctional Tribunal to six months and 10 months in jail respectively, according to Agence Info Libre.
The two men, who are in their 20s, were part of a gang of four whom police arrested in 2012 on suspicion that they had placed an improvised explosive device under the car of Jonathan Moadab, a reporter for Agence Info Libre who is also an anti-Zionist activist.
According to Moadab, the four are members of the French branch of the Jewish Defense League, a movement classified as terrorist in the United States and Israel.
[Iraq Sun] Pressure continued to build Friday on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... , with the country's top Shi'ite holy man calling on political groups to agree on a new leader by Tuesday.
Iraq's recently-elected parliament is meeting Tuesday to begin the process of forming what many hope will be a more inclusive government that does not marginalize Iraq's Sunni minority.
Maliki is losing some Shi'ite allies. On Friday, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on political blocs to agree on a new prime minister, president, and parliament speaker by the Tuesday meeting.
The prime minister has rejected forming an emergency government, saying that would go against the country's constitution and the results of the April 30 parliamentary election.
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Is golf haram? Seriously? I dunno. I could make a case for it being totally taboo in a water stressed region, dunno. Golf courses drink water humans need, just like hogs are direct competitors with us upright walkers. But we have guns and superior vision.
[Iraq Sun] Iraq plunged deeper into crisis as Syrian army aircraft bombed Sunni murderous Moslem targets inside Iraq even as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... rejected calls for forming an emergency government to help the country counter a surge by Sunni Islamist murderous Moslems.
The sectarian conflict in Iraq threatened to spill beyond its borders as warplanes of the Syrian Army bombed Sunni strongholds in western Iraq and Iran has reportedly begun to send in military equipment and is flying unarmed surveillance drones over the country.
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[Iraq Sun] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that up to 10,000 people from predominately Christian communities in northern Iraq have fled their homes this week amid the ongoing violence in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Those fleeing are from Qaraqosh " also known as Hamdaniya " a town of 50,000 people that is located 30 kilometres south-east of Mosul, where armed opposition groups seized control two weeks ago.
UNHCR said many of them have fled to Iraq"s Kurdistan region, which is already hosting an estimated 300,000 people from Mosul and the surrounding areas.
"They fled by bus, car and taxi into Iraq"s northern Kurdistan region on Wednesday night," UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told news hounds in Geneva.
"Many are women and kiddies staying with families, relatives and in schools and community centres, mostly in Erbil. They tell us they fled in a big rush, and didn't bring many belongings with them so that is a sign of how afraid they are."
Asked if Christians who were fleeing the fighting had been directly targeted because of their religion, Ms. Fleming replied that people said they were fleeing pre-emptively in the latest displacement.
"Certainly there is a widespread fear among the Christian community in this area. But, in this particular case, there was no specific targeting but rather pre-emptive flight for fear what would happen next," she stated.
UNHCR and its partners have distributed tents, mattresses and hygiene kits at schools and community centres in Erbil where the displaced families are currently sheltering.
Together with the Kurdish authorities and other humanitarian partners, UNHCR has helped to expand the Garmawa camp in Dohuk where more than 1,000 displaced people are now staying. More camps are being constructed in Kurdistan to accommodate the growing number of internally displaced families.
So far this year, an estimated 1.2 million Iraqis have been displaced by fighting, including from Anbar and Ninewa governorates, according to UNHCR.
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Who are the fucking idiots broadcasting on 9-11 you remember 911 don't cha? Christian fire and brimstone and not to save the country and fucking rag head ease like over father's day weekend on bands that work better at night along with tone and pitch sequences? If the quote GWEN network broadcasts at 10 and you get signals to shift or move up and down or they are intensified through everything who gets to use GWEN ? 10 khz for ARABIC RANTS?
[AnNahar] Iraqi forces fought for a strategically located university campus outside Tikrit Friday and bombarded the city in an effort to retake it from Sunni Arab murderous Moslems.
The military operation came after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki conceded that political measures will also be needed to defeat the jihadist-led offensive that has killed nearly 1,100 people overrun major parts of five provinces.
In further fallout from the crisis, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region declared there was no going back on Kurdish self-rule in disputed territory, including ethnically divided northern oil city Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... now defended against the forces of Evil by Kurdish fighters.
Iraqi forces swooped into Tikrit University by helicopter on Thursday, and a police major said that there were periodic festivities between faceless myrmidons and security forces on the campus on Friday.
A senior army officer said that Iraqi forces were carrying out a major wave of air strikes against forces of Evil in Tikrit to protect the forces at the university and prepare for an assault on the city.
Iraqi troops are deployed in areas around the city for the assault, the officer said.
Another senior officer said taking the university is an important step in regaining control of Tikrit, the hometown of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, which was seized by Sunni Arab forces of Evil on June 11.
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said Storied Baghdad could no longer object to Kurdish self-rule in Kirkuk and other towns from which federal forces pulled out in the face of the murderous Moslem advance.
"Now, this (issue) ... is achieved," he said, referring to a constitutional article meant to address the Kurds' decades-old ambition to incorporate the territory in their autonomous region in the north over the objections of successive governments in Storied Baghdad.
Iraq's flagging security forces were swept aside by the initial murderous Moslem push, pulling out of a swathe of ethnically divided areas, including the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.
Despite Barzani's declaration, it is likely that the territory row will continue to haunt Iraq for years to come.
On Thursday, Maliki, who has publicly focused on a military response to the crisis, said political measures were also necessary, ahead of the July 1 opening of the new parliament elected in an April 30 poll.
The authorities have also purchased at least eight fighter jets from Russia, and six more that are currently stored in Belarus, in a deal valued by Vedomosti newspaper at up to $500 million.
Washington has urged Iraq's fractious leaders to unite in the face of the bully boys, and Hague echoed that message Thursday, saying the "urgent priority must be to form an inclusive government."
Washington has stopped short of calling for Maliki to go, but has left little doubt it feels he has squandered the opportunity to rebuild Iraq since American troops withdrew in 2011.
Maliki's security front man has said hundreds of soldiers have been killed since the offensive began, while the U.N. puts the overall number of people killed at nearly 1,100.
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Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Armed drones. Mass graves. Kirkuk's effective annexation. The Iraq crisis escalated Friday.
A U.S. official confirmed to CNN that armed American drones started flying over Baghdad in the previous 24 hours to provide additional protection for 180 U.S. military advisers in the area. Until now, U.S. officials had said all drone reconnaissance flights over Iraq were unarmed.
Using the drones for any offensive strikes against insurgent Islamic State in Iraq and Syria fighters would continue to require approval from U.S. President Barack Obama. Drones don't fly or maintain themselves. Appears the 'mission creep' has begun.
[DailyBeast] The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is threatening to take control of Balad Airbase, Iraq's largest airfield and one of America's most important military outposts during its occupation of the country.
Today, Balad still has plenty of vehicles and aircraft on the base that any terrorist group would covet, including Russian-made transport helicopters, surveillance planes, and a fleet of pickup trucks fitted with heavy machine guns.
Now, that airbase is coming under fire—and is in danger of falling into the hands of ISIS, according to U.S. intelligence officers, internal reports from Balad, and outside analysts. Rooters reported Wednesday that the base was now surrounded on three sides by turbans and taking heavy mortar fire.
Even if ISIS were to gain control of Balad, there is no guarantee its fighters would know how to operate or maintain the aircraft that are stored there. But an ISIS takeover of Balad would be significant nonetheless. As NBC News reported Tuesday, Iraqi officers say without air support they are on an equal footing with ISIS fighters.
Some attacks on Balad already began this month. The last American contractors at Balad—many of whom were working to modernize the base to be ready for the F-16s—were flown by the Iraqi Air Force to Storied Baghdad on June 13 in a dramatic airlift operation reminiscent of the fall of the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
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Rooters reported Wednesday that the base was now surrounded on three sides by turbans and taking heavy mortar fire.
Which simply means nothing has changed in nearly a decade.
[Ynet] Rocket fire comes after IAF liquidation attack in Gazoo; tensions remain high after day of festivities with Paleostinians.
Tensions were high Friday evening as six rockets were fired into from Gazoo into Israeli territory and a mortar shell went kaboom! near the border fence between Gazoo and Israel. Two of the rockets fired were shot down by the Iron Dome anti missile system while the other four fell in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council.
No damage or injuries were reported as a result of the rockets or mortar fire, but the incidents concluded a full day of festivities between Israeli security forces and Paleostinian elements.
Just hours before the rocket attacks from Gazoo, the IAF launched an attack on a civilian vehicle killing two senior members of Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees and supposedly connected to an increase in rocket attacks over the last two weeks.
Just hours before the rocket attacks from Gazoo, the IAF launched an attack on a civilian vehicle killing Muhammad al-Fasih, 24, from Gazoo City, and Osama al-Hassumi, 29, from Beit Lahia in the northern Gazoo Strip.
Both were senior members of Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees and supposedly connected to an increase in rocket attacks over the last two weeks since the IDF began Operation Brother's Keeper searching for three kidnapped Israeli teens in the West Bank.
More than 20 rockets have been fired from Gazoo since the operation began.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said one of the gunnies "has in recent days been responsible to rocket launching at southern Israel, and was planning additional terror attacks against the citizens of Israel."
"We don't intend to ignore any fire at Israel or any attempt to hurt our citizens and the IDF's soldiers. We will chase after, and strike with a heavy hand, anyone who hurts or plans to hurt us, as we have done today," he added, warning that Israel "views Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, as responsible for anything that happens in the Gazoo Strip, and it mustn't test our patience or resolve."
Earlier in the morning a military vehicle was lightly damaged by an bomb near the Gazook border fence. IDF tanks responded with fire on suspected myrmidon positions.
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[Ynet] Hundreds of people were evacuated as flames threatened residential in capital; firefighters battled to keep blaze from reaching Yad Vashem.
The Israeli authorities are investigating suspicions that a massive wildfire that threatened dozens of homes in Jerusalem on Wednesday was started deliberately.
Dozens of teams of firefighters battled the blaze, which raged through the Ein Karem and Kiriyat HaYovel neighborhoods, causing fears it would reach the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Firemen fought to stop the flames from reaching the museum, which had been evacuated.
A front man for the Jerusalem fire service said the organization is pursuing two major leads, the Israeli media reported Thursday - a group of children spotted fleeing the site of the fire as it started, and the possibility of arson.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Fire Service Commissioner Shahar Ayalon told Israel Radio on Thursday that it was still unclear whether the fire was caused by negligence or arson. The initial assessment, however, is that the fire started in one place.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Fire Service Commissioner Shahar Ayalon told Israel Radio on Thursday that it was still unclear whether the fire was caused by negligence or arson. The initial assessment, however, is that the fire started in one place.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Fire Service Commissioner Shahar Ayalon told Israel Radio on Thursday that it was still unclear whether the fire was caused by negligence or arson. The initial assessment, however, is that the fire started in one place.
The brushfire erupted in the afternoon and spread quickly from the wadi to residential areas. Dozens of IDF personnel also turned out to help battle the blaze.
[Ynet] Syrian government forces captured areas near the border with Leb on Friday, cutting supply lines for opposition fighters as the army tightens its grip northwest of the capital, state media said.
Syrian troops are approaching the mountain resort of Zabadani, which has been under rebel control for two years, cutting it off from rebel-held areas in the mountainous Qalamoun region, state TV said.
State TV said troops in the Qalamoun region reached the edge of the Lebanese border town Tufeil. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported festivities in the area on Friday.
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[AnNahar] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) on Friday executed and crucified one of its own men for corruption in Syria, a watchdog and jihadist sites said.
Photographs posted on websites showed the body and bloodied head of a bearded man with a placard reading: "Guilty: Abu Adnan al-Anadali. Sentence: execution and three days of crucifixion. Motive: extorting money at checkpoints by accusing drivers of apostasy."
The text is signed by "The prince of believers", thought to refer to ISIL chief Abu Baqr al-Baghdadi.
Before being crucified, the man was killed by three bullets to the head at Bab in the north of Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Mainstream Syrian rebels and the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front accuse the jihadists of ISIL of responsibility for a string of atrocities.
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....Motive: extorting money at checkpoints by accusing drivers of apostasy."
Obviously al-Anadali was a small-time piker. Had a assembled the proper Chicago style, community organizing, race hustle machine he might have survived.
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Could be g(r)om. At least ISIS has quality control and some degree of 'standards of conduct' enforcement. Thankfully, their investigation into al-Anadali's activities wasn't thwarted by a crooked, do nothing, attorney general. Something to be said for honor amongst thieves, as opposed to total tribal anarchy.
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they killed him and then crucified him? Boy, I bet he was really pissed at the second part
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That's what I was thinking, Frank. Either that, or they got it backwards.
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One article said that it was alleged that he extorted money at checkpoints by accusing of apostasy. I thought "alleged" is kind of a day late and dollar short since he was executed and crucified.
[AnNahar] A detainee confessed on Thursday to storing a number of explosives and weapons in property he owns in the northern region of Akkar, announced the Army Command in a statement on Friday.
It said that Mahmoud Khaled revealed that he hid explosives and weapons buried in the ground of the property in the town of Fnaideq.
The army consequently raided the area on Thursday where it discovered a number of explosives, mortar shells, and ammunition.
It also seized a large quantity of metal balls that are used in preparing boom belts.
Also Thursday, the army raided another residence in Fnaideq where it seized 42 dynamite sticks, 34 120-millimeter and 80-millimeter mortar shells, 14 propellant charges for the mortar shells, and 36 stun grenades.
The army searched for the owner of the residence, Alaeddine Mohammed Kanaan, without finding him.
Thursday's raids come amid recent security developments in different regions in Leb.
[AnNahar] One person was killed and two others were maimed Friday in an armed clash involving Syrian and Lebanese citizens in the Bekaa border town of Arsal.
"A Syrian gunman was killed and two members of the al-Hujairi and Ezzeddine families were hurt in a clash with machineguns between Lebanese and Syrian citizens in Arsal," state-run National News Agency reported.
It said the shootout broke out over "the splitting of spoils and money."
"A joint force from the army and the Internal Security Forces intervened, seizing various types of weapons and staging patrols in the town," NNA added.
On Sunday, a man kidnapped on May 27 at the hands of an gang was released in the outskirts of Arsal. "Blindfolded and handcuffed, Hasan Ahmed al-Ghawi was freed in Arsal's Wadi Hmayyed," NNA said.
An army commando force had raided Syrian refugee encampments in Arsal on June 18 and carried out patrols in the outskirts of the town in search for gunnies and wanted suspects.
The army had recently kicked off an operation to detain gunnies, who are accused of assaulting Syrian refugee camps in Wadi Hmayyed and abducting several Syrian and Lebanese citizens.
Ever since the Syrian revolt erupted in March 2011, Arsal has served as a key conduit for refugees, rebels and maimed people fleeing strife-torn Syria.
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