Army Seizes Large Arms Cache at Depot Rented by Syrian Man in Akkar
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The Army Intelligence and State Security forces discovered in the northern region of Akkar on Wednesday a warehouse storing weapons, reported the National News Agency.
The army and security forces raided the warehouse, which was being rented by a Syrian refugee.
The warehouse, located in the outskirts of the town of Aidamoun in the northern region of al-Qoubaiyat, stored grad rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, machineguns, sniper rifles, and various explosives.
Later on Wednesday, the Army Command said in a statement: “As part of efforts to preserve security and stability and combat all forms of crime, an army patrol raided a deserted house in the outskirts of the town of Aidamoun in Akkar, which turned out to be an arms depot being rented by Syrian national Wael Abdul Karim.”
Six mortars and eight mortar shells of various calibers, a Grad rocket, two heavy machineguns, two sniper rifles, 23 anti-personnel landmines, ammunition of various types and a large quantity of gunpowder were found in the storehouse, according to the army statement.
The owner of the apartment, its tenant and other Syrian and Lebanese citizens were arrested in connection with the discovery, a security source told Agence France Presse.
Meanwhile, Aidamoun's municipality issued a statement condemning the presence of a weapons cache in the town, disavowing “any person convicted of committing such acts.”
05 February 2014, 14:09
911
Excellent, while at it sweep by Dahieh, Hermel, and Baalebeck.
05 February 2014, 14:20
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so our lebanese army can confiscate arms??????????????perhaps it can down a toy airplane somewhere??????somewhat...
05 February 2014, 15:46
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come on guys! please dont be so soft! this is oppression against poor refugees!!!!
you must denounce it, and defend the right of syrians to have their own milk and blankets in lebanon. uuh i mean grad rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, machineguns, sniper rifles, and various explosives, which is basically the same.
05 February 2014, 14:21
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@Southern: Stop saying Wee-Fee...! It is Why-Phy aka Wi-Fi !
05 February 2014, 14:26
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My dear FT Aka Jaafar I suggest you go easy on the multiple personalities because its affecting you in a negative way, is it really worth assuming different personas just to fake votes and distort the truth?
Your non coherent rabid attacks are affecting only you!! I wish you well because I would hate to see you not post here because after all a man needs to laugh...
05 February 2014, 14:30
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Are Icey-man and Popeye related?
Am I related to them? Are u guys my cousins?
05 February 2014, 14:44
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Harboring terrorists and their weapons is treason and should those involved should prosecuted, tried, and hung.
05 February 2014, 14:54
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Like harbring popular front of liberation of palestine GENERAL COMAND (ahmad jebril guys..) for exemple?....
As usual lebpat, chupachups man, chupachups...
05 February 2014, 14:44
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Don't rush to judgment people. Southern did not mean seal the border the way normal people understand it. He meant seal it for all except his hizb.
05 February 2014, 14:53
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If we provided food, shelter, camps for them instead of spending more than a year saying that there was nothing in syria, they wouldnot live in shit and we would have had better on who is there and what he is doing...
No?...
Plus most of us were refugies some had more money went to europe, canada... But i hope if we were to become refugies again that outr hosts wont treat us as we treated syrians...
Now the fact, go have some chupachups, u should get some mapple syrop flavor.. It might help u think more humanely..
05 February 2014, 16:28
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imagine: that's no excuse for having such an arsenal of weapons. i'm sure no country in the world would host you as refugee if you came with warehouses full of weapons and explosives.
05 February 2014, 17:10
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Of course no one exept the state should hv weapon, but UN got involved in jordan, turky while we were saying that nothing is going in syria and that they were tourists.. And this for more than one year..
We let them in the street bc it is better than making camps where they can hv shelter, bc our politicians are very understanding and not racist at all..
So u really think that the gov did what he could? Really?...
05 February 2014, 15:05
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I'm very proud of the beloved army, they are doing very great effort at securing Lebanon. Keep up the good work LAF
05 February 2014, 17:59
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the army has my full respect, support and admiration, but sadly, the army can easily be paralyzed by traitors in the gov, just like they did with the oil file to give israel enough time to finish pumping it all before we start.
same goes when the army is facing political pressures and prevented from cleaning up terrorist nests in arsal and tripoli.
the people who lived under israeli occupation and oppression in the south, and especially in the 90's (when the rest of lebanon lived on as if nothing was happening), know what could happen the second they give up their only guarantee, and they will not take that chance just based on your empty words anonyme.
05 February 2014, 18:28
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who is relying entirely on the army? mustaqbal who has been fostering militias and a nebulae of terrorist groups?
geagea who declared to feltman he has ten thousand fighters "ready to fight HA" and was asking for US weapons? bab el tabbeneh where every household has RPGs and snipers and who are better equipped than the army?
please specify who exactly? why should HA, who is the only one under a real threat from both takfiris and israelis, be the only target of your wishful thinking?
05 February 2014, 19:03
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looool, yea right. take a drive around tripoli and count the checkpoints habboub. hope you're not a kufar or you might only count one and then byebye.
05 February 2014, 19:19
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You are blinded by hatred anony, you should instead look at other corners. Look for the real evil, the takfiris and Israel which are the one and same enemy of Lebanon.
05 February 2014, 19:19
55
We never heard Geagea talk about takfiris, because he is paid by Saudi to keep his mouth shut about them.
05 February 2014, 16:27
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our army intelligence is applying a selective dissociation policy, ie disarming and arresting only anti-bashar lebanese and syrians while the others can come and go as they wish...
That's why I'm very sceptic about the usefulness of the saudi $3 billion gift...
05 February 2014, 17:05
55
the one Aoun and nassy are not men enough to refuse or denounce...
05 February 2014, 17:37
54
Well legit always great analysis, bravo man, so march 14 (chateh, samir kassir.. Were)are not secular but hachem minkara, hesboz ISLAMIC RESISTANCE (it's official name) are...
Bravo man, good job for today, now hv some rest and a lot of chupachups...
05 February 2014, 17:45
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Cedre, the army is neutral and you shouldn't undermine it just to support your takfiri beliefs.
05 February 2014, 17:57
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This is our army and we are gratefull to it, but army takes orders from political gov (no the army diesnot decide alone what to do..) and if orders are not to intervene when prosteters like hashem selman gets bitten and shot so no soldier would...
Not blaming the army, but political order should be given to tackle all the security issues including hezbollah's friends...
No impunity, all under the same law, all with the same rights and duties?...
U donnot agree?...
05 February 2014, 18:22
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Now you are messing with my words too anony? I said that our President is paid by Saudi, which he is. Our army is regular people
05 February 2014, 18:30
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When the takfiri died, i think Saudis poisoned him not to sing about them.
For the Syrian planes matter, i'm not going to deny that i was fully against the aggression done, because it was not a regular army order to shoot upon the syrian planes, which were just defending their own borders aswell.
The army is neutral and should not protect takfiris, but instead secure the border and block the takfiris from going in and out hiding among normal human beings such as the refugees.
05 February 2014, 18:38
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Anony, you are the liar now. I never said the army killed him. If there are any comments left on that article, that would prove you wrong aswell. I think you are mistaking me for someone else, by the way who are the secterian here? You are the one talking crap about the army, when it is of all sects whatsoever.
05 February 2014, 18:58
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You are the only secterian mind here anony, nobody are talking about normal sunni muslims. We are talking about the takfiris which have no religion, the takfiris which you are mentioning, already got Al Qaeda and the so called Al Nusra front of Lebanon. So what are you suggesting?
05 February 2014, 19:03
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I'm not going to apologize for something i never said about the majeed matter, and so i know wouldn't any normal person. You are taking this Naharnet buisness too personally, I already admitted that i said i was against the anti aircraft fire done. I am never denying my own words.
05 February 2014, 21:13
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Mr. American you are the one that said i was lying, when i didn't instead you make up words that i said.
05 February 2014, 20:31
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i'm not sayin its a poisoned gift, au contraire.
just saying the last tactical m4 is useless witouth willingness and balls...
05 February 2014, 17:10
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What about storming the weapons of HA. If Lebanon is ever going to become a country, the first weapons to be deleted are the ones of HA and then all other. Not even a knife should be in the hands of anyone except the LAF. This is how countries are built. This operation will appear like helping out HA combat its opponents through the army which would bode omen to all of us.
05 February 2014, 17:13
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We deprived them from refugy status, we acted like they were tourists, our gov refused (part of our gov) to make them camps, and now see what happens.. Uare asking them to comme, sleep on the strets, eat what they can and act descently...that's a way to see things, again if someday we hv to move i hope our hist country would not act as did our gov with those people...
Really guys comment, this is not politics, not march8 or march 14, this is just humanitarian talk...
05 February 2014, 17:50
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Ok those guys are fleeing death they are coming where they can, u know u don't chose(or rarely hv the occasion to chose) so on the border camps are better than letting them on the streets with no food chelter and medecine????
Camps inside syria would hv been the best option but till now UN cannot access refugies in syria to give them food, scuds and bomb barreil as well as takfiri are spreading..
This is ur humanitarian view man, really???
05 February 2014, 18:37
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Any armed group outside the states is a threat to any country...
And when u leave people by themself, with no authority, no help u'll end up with poor people, on the street, with no hope, and that is the danger..
The question is simple, if our gov gave them refugiers status, brought UN help for making camps, medics, food (they might not help alot but at least more than if we say there is no refugies, only tourists..) wouldn't the situation be better, for them and for us?...
What do u think?
05 February 2014, 19:16
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It always puts a smile on my face when I read an article about the armed forces doing its job.
A message to Hezbollah supporters: There are three possible long-term scenarios that will arise out of the current situation in the country:
A- The non-hezbollah factions in the country eventually team up to try to take down HA and disarm it. They fail and the country goes into perpetual civil war. Result: everyone loses.
B- The other sides do not attempt to disarm HA, and the status quo is maintained indefinitely, with the security situation remaining the same, economy the same, social issues the same... Result: everyone loses.
C- HA attempts a real takeover of Lebanon. Whether this succeeds or not, the result is the same: everyone loses.
My point is that there is only one solution to our problem. Hezbollah and its supporters must return to Lebanon (ideologically and physically), and submit to the state as all other sects have done. Only then can we say that everyone wins.
05 February 2014, 19:22
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So this your own personal calculations are supposed to be win or loose for everyone? What are you talking about that Hezbollah should return to Lebanon? They are already here, and if you are going to mention Syria now, i can tell you it is not a big force overthere, it is volunteers only.
05 February 2014, 19:40
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Agreed, dialogue is the only sensible option. I have to ask though, who do you suggest to bring to the table?
05 February 2014, 20:04
21
Alright, let's say that the first two end up happening. How will the third be achieved? It will necessarily place the army in confrontation with HA.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that long term the army will win (most of the people will rally around it), but what will the effects be? The country will be totally destroyed. This means that the best way to solve our dilemma is for the party that is creating the problem to come up with the solution. That's why we should always try to reason with HA supporters. To some people it might seem pointless, but I'm confident that eventually people will listen to reason.
People are people, and at the end of the day we're not so different. We all want to live decent lives, have good jobs, protect our families, and live a little.
05 February 2014, 20:38
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Real men = ASSad the butcher, Arnold schwarzenegger, the incredible hulk, etc... lol
05 February 2014, 20:41
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Haha well if that makes you happy lol. Anyway, I never said I'm neutral. I said I don't belong to either M8 or M14. If my opinion on certain issues coincide with those of one of the political camps, then that's all it is, purely coincidental. You cannot be a true citizen of a country and be neutral on key issues.
There are things I agree with on both sides, and others I disagree with. So yes, I am partial on (some) issues, but neutral between camps.
05 February 2014, 21:18
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anonymetexasusa
That's one way that things might turn out, but then again they might not. The war in Syria could go on indefinitely, remember our civil war? 15 years, and we're a tiny country. I think the best way forward is a win-win scenario where everyone saves face, and noone appears to be the loser.
05 February 2014, 21:54
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ToniFarris - lol at Arnold Schwarzenegger. I can imagine him trying to speak Arabic; the Mukaaawamaaa..
lebpatriot246 - Well you can call me LN if you like. I doubt that anyone considers HA stupid. Anyway I hope that they all return to the dialogue table, open agendas and all.. Long term though, I hope to see new parties ruling as I don't believe the current ones have much more to offer the people. These parties are necessary for now to get us to the next stage.
05 February 2014, 21:15
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cedre, if we are khomeinists as you say. Then you are indeed Al Qaedists.
06 February 2014, 04:34
10
Yes it is logical. I know your views are muslim brotherhood or worse, so stop being a hypocrit
05 February 2014, 21:22
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Cedre
I wish everyone was a patriot Lebanese but hey if you are then your a takfiri or something worse. If your against Lebanese getting involved in Syria your a takfiri or something worse.
But if you support a particular group hey your ok your safe.
If you go to Syria to join this group hey your ok your safe again.
If you support the current ruling party hey your ok your safe.
If a logical argument is presented hey your a takfiri or worse.
05 February 2014, 21:32
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Tex, I was being sarcastic with him about M14 leaders. No need to have a fit.
05 February 2014, 22:08
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most of you do not appreciate a thing and keep nagging in a sectarian tone. Maybe go to Nouh Zoaiter buy yourself some lebanese hash it will help you and the economy. You will be profiting the lebanese economy as well as relaxing and chilling away from your HAWEJESS and dillemas ya nawar like EAGLEDAWN
