Unmarked Lebanese-Syrian Border Paves Way for Incursions into Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A unit from the Syrian army made a new incursion in Lebanese territories in in the area of Dawrat al-Ghazal and al-Qaa in the northern Bekaa valley, killing a Syrian man and arresting his brother, media reports said Wednesday.
The incursion took place on Tuesday as the Syrian military was chasing a group of men who escaped on motorcycles to the Lebanese side of the town of al-Douwar, they said.
The reports said that the unit entered 1.5 kilometers deep inside Lebanese territories, killing Ahmed Adel Abu Jabal and arresting his brother Ammar.
But an Internal Security Forces source told Agence France Presse that the two brothers were killed and others were arrested. A Lebanese army spokesman also stressed that the operation took place inside Syrian territories.
An Nahar quoted security sources as saying Wednesday that clashes erupted in the Syrian side of the town, forcing the residents to transport eight bodies to the Lebanese part.
Despite the alleged incursion into Lebanese territories, a Lebanese security source told al-Liwaa newspaper that the Syrian authorities have been given instructions not to cross the Lebanese border or approach it.
The source blamed the unmarked border for the “unintended incursions.”
The security situation in Lebanon is stable and there is no local or foreign decision to destabilize the country, he said.
There were also unconfirmed reports on Wednesday that two Syrian defected officers and 6 other soldiers were killed in clashes that erupted on Lebanese territories in al-Qaa.
Syrian troops have made several incursions into the town of Arsal since the beginning of October.
The incidents took place as An Nahar said that Syria will send a document to Lebanon detailing the alleged smuggling of arms. A high-ranking security source also told al-Liwaa that Damascus knows the identity of those smuggling the weapons to its territories.
19 October 2011, 08:38
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awkward moment when an foreign army enters your country and you do nothing.......
19 October 2011, 08:54
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Lebanese corrupted government policy in violation to the national security allowing Syrian army to enter Lebanese teritory, where is the fake resistance and their lies that they care about Lebanon, all what they care about is thei bank accounts and the cash getting to it in violation to Lebaese constitution.
19 October 2011, 09:06
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this is good for habal hamel and his family, they can steal and kill as they wish
19 October 2011, 09:53
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as long as syrian puppets are in the gvt, syria has the right to do whatever they want!!!
welcome back to the old days! thank you syria for respecting lebanon.... thanks M8 for letting a foreign army free to do what they want !
we call it sovereignty and independance the M8 way!!!!!
double standards as usual... not surprising from traitors
19 October 2011, 14:32
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bootlickers like jabel the camel, le loser the centre of bulldust , & john koura only believe in Greater Syria
19 October 2011, 14:38
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bootlickers like jabel the camel, le loser the centre of bulldust , & john koura only believe in Greater Syria
19 October 2011, 15:18
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First it was 50m, then 400m, now 1,500m...what's next? Beirut??!!
ENOUGH!!
19 October 2011, 15:53
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With a syrian pupped government no wonder we have a these “unintended incursions". Where is claoun on this issue, why isn't he barking away the way he normally does on the most trivial of squabbles. Yes...the good old days of syrian hegemony are back. I blame M14 for not having wiped them out when they had the chance to...but in stead they tended their hands to people with no shred of civility or patriotism...well that hand was cut and here we are back to square one...
19 October 2011, 15:57
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With a syrian pupped government no wonder we have a these “unintended incursions". Where is claoun on this issue, why isn't he barking away the way he normally does on the most trivial of squabbles. Yes...the good old days of syrian hegemony are back. I blame M14 for not having wiped them out when they had the chance to...but in stead they tended their hands to people with no shred of civility or patriotism...well that hand was cut and here we are back to square one...
19 October 2011, 16:11
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Didn't see patriotic rhetoric of "GREAT PATRIOT jabalamel". What this is allowed by your OWNER SYRIA. HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!
19 October 2011, 16:47
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"France: Syria must respect Lebanon’s sovereignty and we condemn its army’s repeated infiltration of Lebanese territory."
in contrast, the syro/iranian followers are commenting today that they do not see any syrian infiltrations into Lebanon :)
hizbushaitan must be blind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
19 October 2011, 19:21
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@geha, i am curious how did you get your avatar (logo) uploaded to your naharnet screen name? I try and I always get an error. Can someone help me out? I want to put something to irritate jabal mhebeel.
19 October 2011, 20:34
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the problem is internet related. i tried several times until I succeeded :)
20 October 2011, 03:20
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@Ali Lebanon is NOT Syria and will never be, you idiots keep trying, you will never succeed. The Cancer in the south will be removed. you and rubbish like you, can dream about making it Syrian, But never, Never, over all our dead bodies and I'm first. 10452.
