Syrian Army Enters Hnaider in Wadi Khaled, Fires at ‘Smugglers’
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A Syrian army unit entered the town of Hnaider in Wadi Khaled in northern Lebanon on Monday where it was chasing smugglers, reported MTV.
It said that it entered the town and opened fire at the alleged smugglers.
The unit also arrested two individuals without giving an explanation to its action, reported LBC television on Monday.
This is not the first time Syrian troops enter Lebanon.
Over the past few weeks, Syrian units have entered, on separate occasions, the Bekaa towns of Arsal and al-Qaa.
It also entered a town in northern Lebanon where it accidentally opened fire at the Lebanese army.
24 October 2011, 18:11
07
So they come into Lebanon, fire on people and arrest them in a neighboring country? No coordination with ISF in Lebanon? No extradition papers, nothing that civilized states do in normal relations with each other.
Why are there ambassadors? Is this not indicia of the recognition of the sovereignty of the state to which you dispatch your ambassador? This is a joke.
Syria is not run by a government but by a Mafia family.
Lebanon is not run by a government but by a Mafia hit squad.
Of course the Mafia don does not need permission from his capos before entering their territory to take care of his enemies.
What Syria has done is quite normal for what it is, a Mafia. It only looks like an abberation when you try to think of the Syrian Regime as a government and the Lebanese Government as, well, as something other than the thin veneer over a Militia regime.
24 October 2011, 18:39
05
Well... for sure they feel more and more at home... And of course do not expect any official statement from our dear ministers. But as soon as one israeli soldier puts one half finger through the fence - which is not even Lebanese territory - it is an official complaint to the UN - in the best case - or a bunch of rockets to israel... Go figure!
24 October 2011, 18:50
80
You defend Israel when it enters Lebanon and blame it on Hizbullah. Why not defend Syria and blame their "incursions" on the terrorists and weapon smugglers that are causing hundreds of deaths in Syria?
24 October 2011, 20:06
80
As the Magnificent President Hafez Assad once said the Syrian Army does not need to ask for permission to enter Lebanon , that was true in 1975 and in 1990 and in 2011 .
24 October 2011, 21:25
04
@Murad. Yes when Israel engages in this sort of cross border activity against the peace and dignity of Lebanese sovereignty, the act is rightly condemned by all. It is a violation of Lebanese sovereignty.
When Syria does it, is not Syria conducting itself toward Lebanon just as the Israelis do? Or does Syria justify itself by Israel? Strange activity for a regime that justifies itself as the "beating heart of Arab nationalism and resistance to the Zionist state" to conduct itself like the Zionists that it condemns, isn't it?
24 October 2011, 22:16
05
More evidence of the fraud of the Hezz.. They only seem concerned with the southern border, and no others.
25 October 2011, 03:57
30
@Beiruti
The two are completely different and you know that very well. Wake me up when Syria is bombing your power plants instead of supporting Lebanon with its own electricity grid.
