Roads Blocked in Halba over Alleged Beheading of Army Soldier
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Protesters blocked several roads Thursday in the Akkar town of Halba over unconfirmed reports that the ruthless Islamic State jihadist group has beheaded a captive Lebanese soldier called Ali al-Sayyed.
Earlier, an alleged IS militant calling himself Abu Musaab Hafid al-Baghdadi posted pictures on his Twitter account that show him cutting off the head of a blindfolded man with a medium beard.
He identifies the supposed victim as “Ali al-Sayyed, an apostate soldier belonging to the 'army of the cross' (Lebanese army).”
The militant says the purported execution is in response to “the attempts of the 'party of Satan' (Hizbullah) to torpedo the negotiations” over the captive Lebanese soldiers and policemen who were abducted after jihadists overran the Bekaa border town of Arsal on August 2.
Abu Musaab warned that other hostages will be “beheaded” should Hizbullah continue its alleged attempts.
Among the pictures posted by the militant is a grisly one showing the severed head of the victim placed on his decapitated corpse.
As the photos surfaced, “angry young men blocked the Tripoli-Halba road at the intersection of Akkar's Burqayel,” state-run National News Agency reported, adding that “the town of Fnaydeq is witnessing an uproar.”
The road was later reopened as the municipal chief of the town of Burj al-Arab said the road was blocked in solidarity with the army in a “symbolic” move.
Meanwhile, ex-MP Wajih al-Baarini hoped the report turns out to be untrue and telephoned Ahmed al-Sayyed, a mayor of Fnaydeq and the apparent father of Ali al-Sayyed, according to NNA.
The mayor said “his son is the son of the patriotic military institution and that the family is not concerned with any protests that might happen.”
The published photos could not be independently verified and the army is yet to release a communique clarifying the issue.
A video published by LBCI TV on August 23 shows a captive soldier identifying himself as Ali al-Sayyed. The TV network said the video is of seven troops who are in the custody of the Islamic State.
Jihadists from the IS and the Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front kidnapped 36 army troops and Internal Security Forces members and took them to Arsal's outskirts as they withdrew from the town following several days of deadly clashes.
Al-Nusra for its part posted a video featuring eight ISF members and an army soldier as the fate of the other security personnel remained unclear.
Y.R.
29 August 2014, 00:22
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Chupachups anyone.....?
And if this beheading turns out to be true then let the army go in with no mercy
29 August 2014, 03:22
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They were coming anyways, look at Iraq ...
they have a vision/dream to achieve. they are coming anyways. Its good that HizbAlla is helping to repel as much as possible, its time for all as a country to put hand in hand and support Lebanese Army and stop criticizing the Hizb to secure the damn borders. when this storm pass then we can evaluate and discuss with Hizb about the strategy and about the future. Sort things in priorities and stop back stabbing each other.
if we don't deserve our country crap animals like Da3ish will definitely intrude ?
29 August 2014, 07:18
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Th lebanese tolerance of all this is despicable !! why are we letting them still roam in Arsal and why dont we do an operation to try and free the soldiers if they are still in the Arsal region ? We are still allowing Syrians to come in to Lebanon , wether by legal or illegal roads and with them they probably have ISIS ,,,,i dont understand how ignorant and stupid we can be
29 August 2014, 10:30
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Gabby,
Eventually IS, Al Nusra was goin gto end up in Lebanon to clean of "Infidels" (Christians) like you and me, while the Western and Arab world sits by and watches. Whether Hizb got us involved or not is irrelevant. It was a matter of time.
29 August 2014, 11:37
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And ISIS / ISIL stands for what? Islamic state in Iraq and sham/ levant.... Where is Lebanon situated? Eatern Europe?
29 August 2014, 12:47
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so ado (karim) what exactly are you saying? Go join HA and fight. Hope to see your picture on a tweet soon
29 August 2014, 11:06
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Its just a matter of time and these animals are going to be roaming the cities of Lebanon just like in Syria and Iraq those who are week will be slaughtered and those who are strong will survive . if it wasn't for Hizib Assad would have fell .. Long live those who are fighting ISIS !
29 August 2014, 12:19
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سلام لبنان بالقوة
شريعة الغاب سائدة في لبنان كنتيجة مباشرة لتفشي السلاح الغير شرعي
الجيش يعمل بأكثر من طاقته وهو بحاجة ماسة وعاجلة للسلاح
الدول تتحفظ على نوعية السلاح بحجج محقة او غير محقة
السياسيين يتناحرون لمكاسب محض أنانية حتى في حالة الوطن المزرية هذه
حتى انتخاب رئاسة الجمهورية معطلة اذا لم تكن لمصلحة فريق يستعين بسلاح غير شرعي
من حق المواطن ان يعيش باطمئنان وسلام
في حالة كهذه لبلد لا يستطيع حكم ذاته وسياسييه مكبلين
فان أفضل الحلول هي طلب رسمي من ما تبقى من ذوي النفوذ من الامم المتحدة لتطبيق القرار ١٧٠١
اولا لحفظ الحدود للدخول او الخروج
ضبط السلاح الغير شرعي ان كان للحزب الذي أسسه الله او الشيطان
عندها لن يكون اي تحفظ لتسليح الجيش الوطني ليوقف كل عنتر عند حده
يكفي اللبناني عذاب
مواطن اقل من عادى بسب يعبد بلده
29 August 2014, 14:13
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Treat them but keep the hospitals on lock down so that upon exit they are interrogated. When Assad father and son ran a country of hostile, assassinations and terror for tens of years they ignored the fact that those citizens will become and a clone of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
29 August 2014, 20:20
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whats stupid is believing that everything is exactly like the news tells you it is
