Official Sources Deny Reports about Syrian Army Entering Masharii al-Qaa, Threatening to Bomb Houses
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Members of the Syrian regime's army entered the Bekaa region of Masharii al-Qaa, threatening to bomb the houses in the area, MTV reported on Thursday.
"Residents of al-Jura town (in Masharii al-Qaa) said that 70 members of the Syrian army have entered the region and asked people to evacuate their houses,” MTV elaborated.
"The army members revealed that they wanted to bomb these residences to prevent using them in military operations against them.”
Future television added that al-Jura's residents have started evacuating their houses.
However, the state-run National News Agency later on Thursday pointed out that reports about the Syrian regime's army entering and threatening Lebanese towns are not true.
LBCI television reported earlier on Thursday that the Syrian army has taken over the eastern mountain of al-Joussieh town that overlooks Masharii al-Qaa.
Fierce clashes are still taking place in al-Qusayr's countryside region near the Lebanese border between the Syrian army and Hizbullah fighters on one hand, and the opposition's rebels on the other.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had announced that Iranian and Hizbullah officers are supervising the Syrian army's operations in Homs.
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah acknowledged on Tuesday his party's participation in the neighboring country's war, explaining that this stems from its belief in helping the Lebanese in al-Qusayr “who are vulnerable to attacks by gunmen.”
He also announced that Hizbullah fighters are defending holy places in the area: “Armed groups are only hundreds of meters away from the Sayyeda Zainab shrine and Takfirist groups launched clear threats on the Internet that they will destroy the shrine should they enter the area."
03 May 2013, 02:00
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No one can deny that the Ba'ath system, alawi or not, is obsolete. It's just time to move on already.
03 May 2013, 08:08
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Whether it is the Syrians or those Islamic zealots from Iran, they have overstayed their welcome. I hope the US arms the rebels who eradicate Assad and the US bombs Iran back into the stone age and wipes it off the face of this earth. Iran and its allies are a cancer and you do not tolerate cancer.
03 May 2013, 16:56
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The way I see it is Iranian regime getting eradicated is matter of when and not if. The US is just waiting on the Iranian people to be fed up with the current living conditions imposed on them because of their leader’s quest for a nuke. Once the Iranian people as a majority decide it is more important to them to have a decent life not overburdened by international sanctions the regime is as good as finished. The reason Iran is safe at the moment is because even the opposition over there will continue the quest for a nuke so taking out the regime will only bring out another Iraq like scenario. I may be wrong but that’s how I see things unfolding.
03 May 2013, 08:39
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It's funny how FT politicises every article....
M14 this M14 that here and there every where
I just wonder if he even dreams about and can't sleep about?
03 May 2013, 08:42
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Absolutely. There has NO been HA solidiers in Syria fighting on their own accord. There are no HA directives to fight in Syria. There is no involvement what so ever Syrian conflict by HA.
Well that's what M8ers say right?
03 May 2013, 18:47
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So..the President lodged a complaint against ASSad interventions why ya zakzak?...and the infiltrations and occupation was also under Lahhoud who kept on defending them and also when hizbocrap "celebrated" their infiltration and occupation by holding up their pictures in a rally. ma azkek.
