Army Thwarts Attempts to Smuggle Weapons out of Ain el-Hilweh
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The army intelligence arrested on Tuesday two people and seized weapons and ammunition from vehicles near the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said a pickup loaded with ammunition was seized at the camp’s entrance near the southern city of Sidon while the occupants of a Mercedes carrying a DShK Soviet-era machinegun were arrested as they were going out of the shantytown.
NNA said the army seized the DShK machinegun and arrested two men identified with their initials as M.M.A. and A.Z.
The two suspects were taken to a military base for questioning, the agency added.
The seizure came in light of the army intelligence’s arrest of an extremist network that was allegedly planning to carry out attacks on the military school in al-Fayyadiyeh and an army base in Hamat.
The ringleader has been identified as Abu Mohammed Toufiq Taha, the head of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades at Ein el-Hilweh, who is on the run.
It was not clear if the two arrests are linked.
13 March 2012, 11:59
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.... and seized a machine gun.....!!!!!! wow.....cool....! why doesn't the army arrest and seize weapons from shias all over lebanon?????
13 March 2012, 16:29
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Michel Aoun September 2002: There are about 11 organizations of terrorism in Damascus. Among them, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front and the General Command Front, all of them are listed in the United States as classified as terrorist organizations... since Lebanon was occupied by Syria, they extended the base of their terror operations to Lebanon, and they are stationed in Syria, but they act from the Lebanese territory... That's what we call in military terminology "indirect strategy." You make a problem and then you come to solve it.
13 March 2012, 17:28
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put all of these people, inlcuding all palestinians from all the camps and send them to syria, and me3 el salameh
13 March 2012, 17:50
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الكل بيعرف انو المخيمات معباية سلاح و الضاحية و بعلبك و الجبل و لبنان كلو مستودع سلاح خلص تسمح الدولة لكل العالم بحمل السلاح او تمنع الكل مش ناس بسمنة و ناس بزيت ,و شفنا 7 ايار و فهمكن كفاية
13 March 2012, 20:42
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i repeat and repeat: salafis wahabiies and farsis are from the same devilish hole
bilad el arz is PREVAILING
13 March 2012, 22:27
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why can't the army go in there and confiscate all of their weapons--this is f'ing ridiculous. They are refugees residing in this country and if they can't respect its laws, leave and don't let the door hit you in the rear.
That area has lots of problems and the fighting between factions doesn't help matter.
