Suleiman Tasks Bassil with Documenting Cross-Border Attacks
President Michel Suleiman tasked on Monday Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil with documenting the cross-border attacks against Lebanese villages.
Suleiman tasked Bassil with documenting the assault on border villages by the Syrian regime in order to take the necessary diplomatic measures.
Two rockets landed on Sunday in the outskirts of the Bekaa town of Sarein, leaving one person wounded.
On Friday, two rockets fired from the Eastern Mountain Belt on the Lebanese-Syrian border hit a plain between the Bekaa towns of Hermel and al-Qaa, media reports said.
Al-Qaida-inspired groups usually claim responsibility for suck attacks, arguing that they come in retaliation to Hizbullah's military intervention in Syria.
The army and security forces tasked to control the border, upped security measures along the northern border with Syria starting from al-Arida crossing stretching to Wadi Khaled all the way along the Kabir river.
Since the Syrian crisis broke out in March 2011, several border areas in the north and east have been frequently struck by cross-border shelling, while the Syrian regime has told Lebanon to better control its porous border to prevent the smuggling of fighters and arms.
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