People-Smuggling Network Arrested in Southern Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Army Intelligence arrested on Tuesday a people-smuggling network in Lebanon, reported LBCI television.
It said that the 13-member network was arrested in southern Lebanon.
The ring was responsible for illegally smuggling people to several countries, including nations of eastern Europe, it added.
On September 27, a ferry traveling from Indonesia to Australia and transporting 68 Lebanese asylum-seekers sank off the Indonesia coast.
Twenty-eight travelers died in the incident, 18 survived, while at least 29 were still missing.
On Sunday, the survivors returned to Lebanon.
The asylum-seekers were victims of a people-smuggling network that carried out illegal travel to different countries.
They were lured by an Iraqi called Abu Saleh, who has previously helped around 500 Lebanese, mainly from the impoverished northern region of Akkar, to flee to Australia.
Several members of his ring from Akkar and the northern city of Tripoli have been paid commissions to convince people to seek asylum in Australia
08 October 2013, 12:45
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sectarian bum.
the cell responsible for the drama in indosian/australian seas was headed by an iraqi and working mainly in akkar.
08 October 2013, 13:06
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(but next time try to copy me when it's applicable, for an extra +1)
08 October 2013, 15:54
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ice- man not every southerner is from Hizbullah. if you didnt know it you ignorant Saida is the capital of the south and its considered a Hariri stronghold. So shut your dirty sectarian mouth and pray before someone burns you alive you ignorant.
08 October 2013, 17:41
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Hailie. One day life will give you a lesson in manners and humility. You are exceptionally arrogant, disagreable and rude.
08 October 2013, 18:43
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you were shocked by haile's word but not by the (wrongful) sectarian finger pointing?
08 October 2013, 21:45
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Mowaten. I am not reacting to this post. I am reacting to all his posts. Sometimes I do agree to the contents of his posts, However he shows tremendous arrogance and rudeness in his posts.
09 October 2013, 12:26
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well it seems to me he was reacting to the disgusting sectarian remarks of ice-man, which are systematic in all his posts.
i think we should first react to hate speech and sectarianism, before blaming someone who might have overreacted to it.
08 October 2013, 22:15
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people smugglers are not to blame, they are trying to give these people a solution, the 1 to blame is hezzbo who is trying to impoverish the people to control them ,and the only resposible of the economic situation of the country, feed them by 3ezza Mr Hassan.
