Nusra Front Threatens to 'Kill its Shiite Captives' Should Hizbullah Intervene in Qalamun Battle
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The al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front threatened on Sunday to “kill the Shiite Lebanese soldiers” it had kidnapped earlier in August should Hizbullah intervene in battles in Syria's al-Qalamun region, while also issuing a warning to the Free Patriotic Movement, reported the Turkish Anatolia news agency.
The group said in a statement that it will wage the battle to “liberate” al-Qalamun in a few days, adding: “Hizbullah's participation against us will force us to kill our Shiite prisoners.”
Hizbullah has been taking part in the fighting in Syria for over year now.
The Shiite group has been waging battles alongside the country's ruling regime.
The Syrian regime forces, backed by Hizbullah, seized control of al-Qalamun in April.
Commenting on the release of five Sunni security personnel on Saturday, the al-Nusra Front said: “We released them as a goodwill gesture because we are of the same fold.”
The al-Nusra Front had kidnapped a number of Lebanese soldiers and security forces from the northeastern border town of Arsal in light of clashes between Islamists and the army in the region.
The battles began on August 2 and ended five days later.
The gunmen withdrew from the town, but abducted the security personnel.
Five of them were released on Saturday.
Moreover, the al-Nusra Front also addressed Christians in Lebanon, warning that Hizbullah has “dragged them in wars that have nothing to do with them.”
“We turn to reasonable Christians to extinguish the flame of war that the Free Patriotic Movement has ignited,” it said.
“The FPM's recent actions has thwarted the release of your Christians sons,” it said in reference to Christian security personnel among its Lebanese captives.
“You must maintain neutrality between us and the Iranian party,” it added in reference to Hizbullah, which is backed by Iran and allied with the FPM.
31 August 2014, 11:17
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hey guys
Ever considered that a Lebanese united front is our best approach to deal with the threat Lebanon faces? Don't you think it is better than the mutual m8 and M14 blame game?
Lebanon is facing an existential threat we need to be united to confront this.
so unite and stop this lame mutual blame
31 August 2014, 11:17
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hey guys
Ever considered that a Lebanese united front is our best approach to deal with the threat Lebanon faces? Don't you think it is better than the mutual m8 and M14 blame game?
Lebanon is facing an existential threat we need to be united to confront this.
so unite and stop this lame mutual blame
31 August 2014, 11:51
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Indeed, we should also send fighter to syria, irak, yemen... So we secure lebanon even more...
Flame bi charafak, go hv some chupachups...
31 August 2014, 11:37
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Waww...
I just get over the assassinations, 7 ayyar, assassination attepts, ansar al sonna twitter account, hezbollah jihadist duty in syria, irak... Just shut up and accept that hezbollah decides the fate of my country.... Really southern? That's all u got up with?..
La 3younak, what else?
31 August 2014, 11:38
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And please can u tell me how i'm sectarian?
Or i just have to add this adjectif to imperialsit/takfiri/zionist/ksa... For not supporting very secular hezbollah islamic resistance?...
31 August 2014, 11:40
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It seems u give a lot of importance to details (btw i wonder who is behind those guys which burning da3ech flag , which i don't mind btw, isnot there only modern and wise manifestation...
31 August 2014, 11:43
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But those details are usually the results of a larger pictures no?...
Ur comments hv the same purpuse than ahrar el sonna twitter acount... Same way of thinking, same background? Same great party behind it...
31 August 2014, 11:44
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Ur getting smarter flame... Amazing..
No chupachups man?.. Really?...
31 August 2014, 11:46
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First not my leadders flame but more patriotic than this sectarian millicia, at least that's how i see it...
And it's only history, but i think too much otv/manar/sana have screwed ur brain, u know geagea was not the only one in fighting in lebanese war....
31 August 2014, 11:52
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FT and imagine
you guys are something else you agreed with my comment yet you manage to do the mutual blame
pity the country
31 August 2014, 12:09
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I agree that the UN should help us seal and protect our border.
On the other hand don't you think that our problem is beyond HA or any other related issue?
can't you just face the fact that the jihadists are at the border ready to expand their caliphate? they would have done so wether HA is fighting in Syria or not
I wish you guys focus on the jihadist threat. We need to face that threat united
31 August 2014, 14:34
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No bigjohn hezbollah did it indeed, after all his effort cleaning all south from any other patriotic secular or multiethnic resistance group that liberated beirut to saida before hezbollah was created and after while he was busy fighting amal and getting journalists hostages for ransom...
He even tried this with lebanese army, assassissination of officer samer hana while on duty on a lebanese hellicopter, putting it on the zionist enemy at first, after when prouve were too obvious the hezbo assassin got 6months jail...
Intissarat illahiya ya rafik bigjohn... From lebanon threw syria, irak, yemen...labayka ya nosrolah...
Now go have ur chupachups to..
31 August 2014, 14:28
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Flame, So the UN cannot also be on lebanese borders helping lebanese armed forced, or u prefer our local shiite millicia, hezbos will do some better job and some other intissar illahi awou lawou kountou a3lam?...
Flame it's not about an 80 year old genius and superb general getting presidency, it's our country getting dragged in there jihadist duty in syria irak yemen....
31 August 2014, 14:29
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I disagree. These ISIS wanted this with or without HA. Look at how many FSA they have killed.
01 September 2014, 08:14
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Zahle1 - ISIS would have been finished was it not for the Assad regime and Hezbollah attacking the rebels in the back who were about to finish ISIS.
31 August 2014, 14:51
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Zahleh, no one with a litle comon sence can argue on the fact that isis and co must be exterminated...
But can u tell me on how u see hezbollah doing jihadist duty in syria, irak, yemen.. Enno was it really helpfull? Enno heik nehna mertehinn aktar?... Assad freed lokman from his jail in 2011 with nearly 500 other and u will find this info even in pro assad media u know how is lokman? A retarded takfiri now in charged of isis in dimashk area, u know shaker el abssi style also freed by assad and sent to lebanon, so instead of getting involved in all this mess we can focus on lebanon and maybe if our da3ech shiite style gets out of this regional conflict it might help, no?....
Chupachups?....
31 August 2014, 15:02
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We have a lebanese millicia engaging in jihadist war in all the region.., what are u talking about flame?? We really need a sectarian conflict again?? We really need to be dragged more in this regional conflict???
31 August 2014, 19:38
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Cowardly salafis, they can't face the Resistance face to face, so they threaten to execute prisoners.
31 August 2014, 19:38
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Cowardly salafis, they can't face the Resistance face to face, so they threaten to execute prisoners.
01 September 2014, 00:29
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imagine, I wish HA stood on the border and shot every takfiri, Nusra, Isis trying to enter Lebanon. If the army would not do it, I wish they would. I wish they did not go to Syria. I agree with you. I believe they might have made the situation worse by doing so. But at least they have a vision, and have leadership. They obviously believed that their interest in Lebanon would be best served if they played some offense in Syria. M14 has no plan. I am now a neutral, and cannot blindly follow Geagea any more. This Mustaqbal alliance has some major consequences you must admit. I mean HA did nothing for those of us against Assad during his occupation but at least they were not forcing people from villages, attacking churches, and chopping off our heads. I don't thank them for this but look what is happening just a few miles from our villages in Syria. Although the moderate Sunni are against this they are too few, and these snackbarians are their muscle.
