9 Injured after Fatah al-Islam Inmates Take Hostages in Roumieh
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Two security personnel and seven inmates were injured after Fatah al-Islam prisoners took several soldiers hostage during a mutiny that lasted a few hours at Roumieh prison, media reports said.
A high-ranking source told Voice of Lebanon radio station (93.3) that the riot started at the 3rd floor of bloc B with a dispute over a decision to make changes in the responsibilities of soldiers and during routine prison search.
The wounded security personnel were identified as Toufiq Nasser and Hussein Ali Jaber.
The hostages were freed after an operation carried out by an Internal Security Forces special Panthers unit and a Rapid Intervention squad.
Meanwhile, the families of inmates held a sit-in outside the mosque of the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar to protest the injury of the prisoners, the National News Agency reported.
23 September 2011, 09:53
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Another example/symptom of a totally dysfunctional state and political class (not a particular this gvmnt, all gvmnts) to solve ANYTHING.
Forget about camp refugees, national security, electricity, the economy...
If a problem confined inside one stupid building, with one stupid group, cannot be solved and keeps recurring every 2 weeks, how can anything get ever resolved
23 September 2011, 10:04
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just send these thugs to a place where islam rules like KSA where they know how to keep them in check
23 September 2011, 15:15
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oua nabka, islam rules in many places over lebanon, not least the south and north and east. Of course all thanks to the maronite shiites and the maronite sunnis who instead of uniting with each other chose to unite with others.
23 September 2011, 21:10
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Roumieh is the third biggest concentration of Sunni crazies in Lebanon after Tripoli and Akkar. alla yestor
