More than Four Killed in Blast Targeting Muslim Scholars in Arsal
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More than four people were killed on Thursday in a bombing that targeted a meeting of the al-Qalamoun Muslim Scholars committee in the northeastern border area of Arsal, reported the National News Agency.
The head of the committee, Syrian cleric Sheikh Othman Mansour, survived the blast but was in a critical condition, LBCI television said.
NNA identified four of the dead as the clerics Omar al-Halabi, Alaa Bakkour, Ali Rashaq and Fawaz Orabi.
It said several bodies that are yet to be identified were also found on the scene.
Several other people were injured in the blast.
According to LBCI, all of the casualties are Syrian.
NNA said the explosives used in the attack were hidden in a motorcycle that was parked near the meeting's venue.
But a security source told AFP that the attack was carried out by a “suicide bomber.”
The source said that the bomber entered the meeting of Syrian clerics and "detonated an explosive belt, leaving five people dead and six wounded until now."
"The explosion definitely targeted this meeting... where usually no less than 15 people are gathered," Arsal resident Abu Ibrahim told AFP by telephone.
He said the committee's deputy head, Omar al-Halabi, had been killed.
"I just went to the hospital, and there were people crying and screaming," he said.
Military Examining Magistrate Judge Saqr Saqr tasked the military police and army intelligence to carry out the investigations, said Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5).
The Qalamoun Muslim scholars committee is concerned with aiding Syrian refugees and catering to the needs of their encampments.
It was also tasked with carrying out mediations to release servicemen kidnapped in Arsal in 2014.
The servicemen were abducted by al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front and Islamic State militants in the wake of clashes in the northeastern town in August 2014.
M.T./Y.R.
05 November 2015, 15:55
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"that Hezbollah accused of being Nusra symphatizers" when? where?
"Hezbollah preferred method of delivering exploding devices" according to?
"Whom Hezbollah call them Syrian terrorist enemies" again, when and where did they say that?
"Liberating the Lebanese Servicemen - Something Hezbollah doesn't want to see Happen" why wouldnt they want it to happen? and based on what are you claiming this?
it's terrible when you get tangled up so far into your propaganda, where your start basing the lies on today on the lies of yesterday...
05 November 2015, 19:39
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hahahaha seriously anonyme?
"Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement expressed reservations on tasking the Muslim Scholars Committee with negotiating"
becomes "Hezbollah accused of being Nusra sumpathisers"
???
and you call ME a liar?
05 November 2015, 19:49
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so many things you keep "proving" all the time, I'm surprised you haven't yet proven the earth is flat.
ps: you are still a liar for the accusations you made and are incapable of backing, Mystic's opinion is his own and he does not represent Hezbollah.
05 November 2015, 19:50
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so many things you keep "proving" all the time, I'm surprised you haven't yet proven the earth is flat.
ps: you are still a liar for the accusations you made and are incapable of backing, Mystic's opinion is his own and he does not represent Hezbollah.
05 November 2015, 20:09
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It's amusing how highly you think of us.
As if we are spokespersons send online to chat on Naharnet.
05 November 2015, 20:15
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Mowaten why do you care if he calls you liar or not? No matter what we write, we will be accused of lying.
Not to mention when this texas guy wrote he wished for IDF to finish Hezbollah in Syria and later denying his own words.
06 November 2015, 12:08
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lol Mystic you're right and I don't care about what he says, I just like tormenting him ;)
05 November 2015, 17:57
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if he is on captagon then give us counter arguments about how positive hezbollah is to the lebanese economy, social welfare, environment...what does hezbollah do to strenghten lebanese institutions?
yella! let's read your arguments, that of course if you have more than one neurone....
05 November 2015, 17:58
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lol mowaten, nothing to answer so he posts under his regular hallmark "guest" names;)
05 November 2015, 18:00
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lies and filth, brought to you by mowatenirani the lie-fabricating chimp from ashtaf el nass;)
05 November 2015, 19:45
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yea you're right peace, after all liberating the country from israeli occupation and preserving it from takfiri invasion does very little in terms of "environment"... the bees and flowers are happier in raqqa or gaza.
thank you for reminding us that, we who only have one neuron bow in awe of your superior intellect (eagleyawn not included because he only has half a neuron, but is working on it)
05 November 2015, 20:22
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i did not expect much from you mooowaten the souri.. all you uderstood was "bees and flowers"? LOL then the garbage crisis is not an environmental issue... anyway: tell us what your party has contributed for the other points i mentioned? any proposals to improve the economy? the industry? the exports? the scientific research? sustainable development? NOTHING...
so either it is a political party that propose a economical, industrial social platform or a militia... but hezbollah has just proven they are not in Lebanon for lebanese but or iran and you are its best advocate here.. you have nothing to do with Lebanon but rather you are here to bark spit and vomit hezbi iranian propaganda....
now go and play with your dolls...
05 November 2015, 20:46
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@mowaten E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T. Still laughing since the day you declared with a straight face you were a shiaa atheist and also a member of hezbollah with only one account. I think i will also continue to laugh at your statement "the bees and flowers are happier in raqqa or gaza.". Thank you Thank you
06 November 2015, 04:28
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Southern ... Like it or not, @texas's are some of the best on naharnet. He makes his point and avoid indulding in sectarian nonsense.
06 November 2015, 06:09
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You are too funny. If you live in Lebanon, please compare your life now to the life you had 10 years ago? Has it gotten any better? No?!?!?! I wonder why.
