1 Dead, 24 Hurt as Clashes Enter Third Day in Tripoli
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Clashes continued Sunday in the northern city of Tripoli, raising the casualty toll to at least one dead and 24 injured in two days of fighting.
“Abir al-Kayyal has died of wounds she incurred in the ongoing clashes between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen,” state-run National News Agency reported in the evening.
It later said that the injury toll rose to 24. Three army soldiers and a member of the General Security were among the wounded, NNA said.
The agency identified 15 of the wounded as Shadi al-Hasan, Saad Mishhawi, Mohammed Hasan, Walid al-Hamawi, Ahmed Nasser, Yahia Awad, Hamdi al-Baqqar, Yahia Saleh, Mohammed Khodr, Firas Abdul Aziz, Kamel Yamen, Hussam al-Hazzouri, Jaafar al-Hazzouri and Jihad Haydar.
It said Haydar suffered “critical wounds” and was rushed to the Islamic Hospital in the city.
The agency reported fierce clashes in the evening, saying the frontiers of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen were witnessing fighting with all sorts of light- and medium-caliber weapons, including RPG-7 and B-10 rockets.
Meanwhile, the army was shooting back at the sources of gunfire and it erected checkpoints on the outskirts of the two areas to prevent gunmen from exiting or entering the conflict zone, according to NNA.
“Army troops backed by armored vehicles raided places in al-Riva area after several people were wounded by sniper fire on Syria Street,” Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) said earlier on Sunday.
“Clashes are ongoing on the frontiers of al-Riva, Starco, al-Bazar, Baal al-Darawish and al-Shamal Street amid sniper activity on all frontiers in Tripoli,” it said.
According to LBCI TV, the army closed the eastern lane on the Tripoli-Akkar highway and kept the western land open to traffic.
On the political front, a number of Muslim clerics met at a Jamaa Islamiya office in the city and urged “all the leaders of the fighting frontiers to cease fire immediately.”
"This meaningless battle will only serve the interests of the Syrian regime and its allies in Lebanon," they warned.
The fighting had renewed on Saturday evening on several frontiers after a brief lull.
The current round of fighting in Tripoli was sparked by the Friday death of Taleb Assi of Jabal Mohsen from injuries he had sustained when unknown assailants opened fire at him in Tripoli's al-Qobbeh area.
19 January 2014, 21:14
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Having said what you just stated. Do support the 4 billion dollar donation to the army by Saudi Arabia?
20 January 2014, 05:54
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Josephani- dodging the question with assumptions is a sign of weakness.
Sagh- do you think people in your culture i.e. Condescending racists with no morals can ever have a meaningful conversation with others?
19 January 2014, 21:51
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I admire Jabal mohsen, only a handful of people can take on a whole city filled with Al Qaeda. That is indeed pretty legendary.
19 January 2014, 21:56
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You know @mystic, Jabal Mohsen legendary heroics remind me of a handful of posters here including yourself who can take on an overwhelming majority and yet seem to get an unbelievable amount of votes.
19 January 2014, 22:28
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@Mystical, so this silent majority that you mentioned votes on your behalf but does not comment, sits at the keyboard waiting for example for my comments or other comments , reads them as they are posted, and within say 3 seconds they vote down the comment. Is that how it works? Am I correct?
19 January 2014, 22:30
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If you are sad about vote downs, then you should probaly change your views ice, that might be the end of that problem.
19 January 2014, 22:03
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Lebanese army???????? Are you guys serious???? When did the army ever interfere in anything or protected anyone????? I have no clue why we have an army to start with???? As long as the absurdity of keeping the army united by keeping it away from any conflict prevails then bye bye Lebanon!!! More over why do we need weapons ?? To fight whom?? And to protect what??? Enough of this B.S!!! Let us build a country for gods sake!
19 January 2014, 22:06
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newdawn, it is important that Lebanon has an army, it is our army for all of us to share, i do agree that they lack of action sometimes, but that is because of the politics and the fear of another civil war.
19 January 2014, 22:22
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Oh I get it now. So, the army is the police and the resistance is the real army as we know it in the traditional sense. Cool...
19 January 2014, 22:37
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there you go iceman, you heard it from Mystic loud and clear. That is how these outlaws think of the state and the army.
19 January 2014, 22:14
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These takfiris doesn't care about the laws at all, they want their Caliphate with King Abdollah to triumph all over us. Good thing they are being stopped all over, because that would be a disaster to all.
19 January 2014, 23:28
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Russia is just using Syria for Oil drilling rights, that's it, and the Saudis backed the MB in Egypt against the Islamists.
19 January 2014, 23:28
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*I meant that Saudis backed the Egyptian Army against the MB/Islamists.
20 January 2014, 02:37
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@proudm14, thats what you said 3 years ago, and the Damascus countryside has been cleaned, only a few pockets of takfiris left around the rural side of dimasq.
20 January 2014, 03:42
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i don't think you are frightened at all, you people relish the thought of dying, it is drilled into your rotten brain since birth that your life is at the hands of the ayatollah, and this is why you will never inherit lebanon you filthy traitor, the land itself will not accept you.
20 January 2014, 03:52
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Nice point frankenstein, salafis think that war frightens us. We who stood up to Israel while everybody told us to stop defending ourselves. Think again
20 January 2014, 03:53
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@proudm14 what about your beloved takfiris getting mashed everyday in Syria? They are also killing each other off, thats how they like their deaths.
20 January 2014, 07:22
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@frankenstein
Shias are also Arabs, or did you forget and think that you were Iranian? LOL
Also, none of the baathist regimes were ever peaceful, ask ethnic minorities like the Kurds. That being said, at least Sunni Saddam was an intellectually consistent true arab nationalist, unlike assad, the iranian collaborator, and the Shias helped the Zionist Americans in Iraq during the war. By the way, remember, Saddam fired rockets into israel, while Assad and Co. never would dream of doing such a thing.
20 January 2014, 07:35
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@Mystic
Shias in Lebanon only become strong as a result of Sunni-Christian fighting, to begin with and Israel occupied the South only in consent with the alliance of certain Maronite zionists. After the Christians lost the Civil War, Israel realized it was a lost cause, and so they left. And as for Assad, he's a dictator, not unlike Saddam or Gaddafi, the difference is that he sacrifices some of his nationalist goals to give privileges to his Alawi/Shia sect.
Speaking of Human Waves and Suicide Bombings, that's exactly what Hezbollah and Iran did back in the early days in the 80s when they were desperate. The Basij were the first non-oriental episode of Human Wave Attacks in the modern era and a 14 year old Iranian Suicide Bomber, Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh, was praised by Khomeini as a hero. Let's not forget the marine barracks. It's hilarious because every single claim that shias make against sunnis can also be applied to Shias.
19 January 2014, 22:15
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You know something @mystical, I think you should be the natural replacement to Sayyed Hassan should something happen to him, God forbid.
19 January 2014, 22:21
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hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaah
Alawite...Freedom, Modern, tolerant....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
19 January 2014, 23:23
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You mean your iraqi shia buddies who are ethnically cleansing sunnis and assyrian christians?, not that sunni extremists aren't also doing likewise, but shias have shown themselves to be no different.
19 January 2014, 23:49
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In Iraq, it's both shia and sunni extremists who are killing each other including assyrian christians.
You see here the mahdi army killing an assyrian girl for being christian.
http://www.aina.org/news/20050324155721.htm
And a Shiite Iraqi Ayatollah has issued a fatwa to convert to Islam or die for iraqi christians:
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Shiite-ayatollah-launches-fatwa:-Iraqi-Christians,-conversion-to-Islam-or-death-26636.html
19 January 2014, 23:52
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By the way, 'Josephani', congratulations on exposing yourself as a hezbollah shia pretending to be a secular christian. No christian would care so much about yazid or historical intra-islamic events as you do.
19 January 2014, 23:57
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Actually, most christians barely know anything about Husayn or Yazid to begin with.
20 January 2014, 00:34
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he's an alawite syrian with multiple accounts. likely getting paid for each thumbs down he gives on our comments.
20 January 2014, 02:20
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shia obsession with figures of islam who died 100's of years ago...
20 January 2014, 02:20
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we all know how accepting HA is of people converting from shia to something else. they are the pillar of liberalism in this country after all.
20 January 2014, 07:36
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He's just a Shia playing taqiyya in order to continue his facade of playing christian.
20 January 2014, 03:45
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Yes you are right ya zalame, they don't stand a chance, and never did so. Look at Jabal mohsen, a single alawite enclave can hold back these masses of Al Qaeda.
20 January 2014, 07:43
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Everyone knows what shias are doing when they are the majority like in Iraq, dead Sunnis and Assyrian Christians pay the price. They just try to USE christians when they're in the minority.
Yes, we welcome the day when Jabal Mohsen is free from the hordes of shia jihadist Iranian-backed mahdi army terrorists.
