Wanted Suspects Exchange Fire with ISF in Sidon
An Internal Security Forces Unit exchanged fir on Tuesday with suspects during a raid in the Taamir Ain el-Hilweh area in the southern city of Sidon.
The state-run National News Agency reported that the raided the area in search for wanted suspects.
Future television reported that a unit comprised of ISF members and the Intelligence Bureau came under fire while carrying out a raid in Sidon to apprehend suspects affiliated in the Hizbullah Resistance Brigades.
Media reports had said that Hizbullah decided to dissolve its affiliated Resistance Brigades to lift the cover off any member that breaches security.
Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir accused in June 2013 Hizbullah of using several apartments in Abra in Sidon to stockpile weapons and house fighters.
Al-Asir supporters clashed several times with the members of the Hizbullah's Resistance Brigades in Abra.
The Salafist cleric, a 45-year-old cleric who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, is no where to be found after his supporters clashed in June with the army.
Officials in Sidon have been demanding Hizbullah, after al-Asir's battle with the army, to withdraw its resistance brigades members from the city.
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