Report: None of Arsal Incident Suspects Have yet Been Arrested
Hundreds of suspects are linked to Friday's Arsal incident, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.
Military sources told the daily that the Lebanese army has identified all of the suspects and yet it has not yet arrested any of them.
The raids against the suspects will take place at "the appropriate time," they added.
They revealed that those apprehended on Saturday are not linked to the incident in the northeastern town.
“Those involved in the crime will be held accountable,” the sources declared.
“All political statements on the attack are baseless as Arsal's residents back the army and some 500 of its sons are part of the military institution,” they continued.
The army arrested several residents of Arsal on Saturday a day after two soldiers were killed when gunmen ambushed a military patrol, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said the men were arrested either for the possession of illegal arms or for failing to stop at several checkpoints set up by the military at the entrances of the town.
An army communique said Friday that a patrol was ambushed by Arsal gunmen as it was hunting a man wanted for several terrorist acts.
The clashes that ensued left an officer with the rank of captain, Pierre Bashaalani, and Sergeant Ibrahim Zahraman dead, and several military personnel wounded.
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