Hizbullah Says Arsal Attack Highlights 'Foreign-backed Threat Looming over Lebanon'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah on Sunday noted that the militant assault on the Bekaa border town of Arsal enjoys “a foreign cover and domestic rationalization,” warning that it highlights “the threat looming over Lebanon.”
“The continued crimes that are being committed by organized terrorist groups, which enjoy a foreign cover and domestic rationalization, are indicative of the threat looming over Lebanon and all its people, without any differentiation between one region and another or one sect and another,” the party said in a statement addressing the situation in Arsal.
It urged all Lebanese to close ranks to confront terrorism and to avoid “finding excuses or justifications for these terrorist groups.”
“The firmness shown by the Army Command in confronting the assault on its checkpoints and posts in Arsal's outskirts is a stance that deserves utmost appreciation and support,” Hizbullah added, urging citizens to “embrace and stand by their military institution.”
And as it expressed its support for “all the steps that the army is taking,” the party underlined that it "stands shoulder-to-shoulder with this institution in the face of the threats looming over our country.”
Fierce clashes between the army and armed groups in the eastern border region of Arsal continued into a second day on Sunday as troops sought to regain control of areas seized by the gunmen.
Ten soldiers have been killed and 25 others wounded since the eruption of clashes on Saturday, Army chief General Jean Qahwaji announced on Sunday, as he revealed that 13 troops have gone missing and are “possibly being held prisoner.”
The fighting has also left at least three civilians dead in Arsal.
Clashes started when masked Syrian gunmen infiltrated Lebanon's Arsal after news broke out about the arrest of top militant Imad Ahmed Jomaa.
The infiltrators surrounded army checkpoints and targeted military posts with gunfire, while others stormed an Internal Security Forces post and took policemen hostage.
Hizbullah itself has been engaged since weeks in heavy fighting with gunmen positioned between Arsal and the Syrian region of Qalamun.
Tensions skyrocketed in the area earlier this year with a major influx of refugees and fighters after Syrian forces backed by Hizbullah recaptured most of Qalamun.
Despite the Syrian regime's advances, pockets of opposition forces, including jihadists from al-Nusra and the Islamic State group, remain in the area.
Y.R.
03 August 2014, 20:10
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ironic when a brutal terrorist organization invading another country talks about "foreign" cover and rationalization.
03 August 2014, 21:27
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liberty; mowaten is judge, jury and executioner. He has been authorized by the terror party to conduct random testing of patriotism. Today, it is eagledawn, tomorrow (or 5 minutes later) it could be you-:)
03 August 2014, 22:07
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hahaha! unbelievably bad-:)) First outing yesterday, and i finished 19 over par!!
03 August 2014, 22:10
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The sad reality is that HA does not realize that it is the biggest part of the problem.
04 August 2014, 00:19
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They don't target Shia only though. Read the other article about this by Naharnet...they fire on Sunnis that don't agree with them too. In fact, they fired towards the Arsal residents that were trying to escape.
04 August 2014, 10:30
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eagledown: what is ironic is that HA is not brutal enough on traitors like you.
04 August 2014, 12:08
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@crusher, tell us the story again how you resisted syrian occupation and broke thru ISF and syrian intelligence barriers in search of freedom, lol.
03 August 2014, 20:58
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NasrIran keep sending ur nephews and all dahieh scum to qalamoun, u're making lebanon a big favour but sending these terrorists to their deaths...
03 August 2014, 22:05
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Foreign-backed Threat, do they mean something like what Michel Samaha was task with? I just hope instead of repeating their idiotic rhetoric these guys have the decency to follow the lead of their Iraqi brethren who when the danger came to Iraq swiftly moved back to defend their homeland rather that the Syrian despot.
03 August 2014, 23:35
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i did not see you object when your other alias @wolf posts his daily diatribe. You just vote him up, hypocrite!
03 August 2014, 23:55
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Try almanar, it's a better site. Defenatly will suit your taste of propaganda or should I say Hasbara?
04 August 2014, 00:21
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Don't you think they were coming regardless? Recognize the aim of sponsoring these Nusra/ISIS fighters...it was to bring down the so called resistance axis
04 August 2014, 00:28
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Cedre????What are you on about?you are the one who called for disarming the Hizbollah thugs ,now you are defending these criminals?do you really believe that the army is targeting civilians and kids in Arsal?
The army should not negotiate with them terrorist,Policy should be surrender or die.
As for Hizbolla s comments !!! they know what they are talking about,They are experts in terror .....
04 August 2014, 00:52
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The Iranian mercenaries talking about foreign backed, how about when they were send by the Ayatollah to Bosnia to fight side by side with al Qaeda terrorists against Christians
04 August 2014, 04:51
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Both are foreign entities, slightly different tactics, both manipulate normal Lebanese, so yes.
04 August 2014, 08:41
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Hizbullah Says Arsal Attack Highlights 'Foreign-backed Threat Looming over Lebanon'............
Just like Iran's support of HA is a Foriegn-Backed threat as well.
04 August 2014, 08:42
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You are the biggest threat ya hizb el shaitan when you eliminated the best breed of moderate sunni politician under the orders of your paymasters. There were no tokfiris when you were blowing yourselves up against the maries in beirut in 1983, against marching Saddam' s tanks. You have reinvented terrorism, and lead the way. Extremism breeds extremism ! You have opened the gates of hell in Lebanon and ruined the State power on every occasion, and dragged us all into regional conflits.Outlaws that's what you are!
04 August 2014, 17:28
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Lebanon only has room for one 'Foreign-backed Threat Looming over Lebanon'
04 August 2014, 20:56
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With the army and HA aligned together against a common ennemy, let's get rid of this trash once and for all. ya allah anserna!
