Syria Targets Wadi Khaled with Shelling again, 3 Killed
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Heavy shelling rattled the northern border region of Wadi Khaled overnight as gunmen opened fire along the Lebanese-Syrian border at several illegal crossing points, media reports said on Tuesday.
The Lebanese Red Cross announced that the shelling killed 2 Syrian nationals and a Lebanese.
Another Lebanese citizen was wounded in the shelling and was transferred to Rahhal hospital in Akkar.
Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) reported that the Syrian national is called Mohammed Hussein Abbas.
The radio station said that Lebanese Walid Moussa was killed by a heart attack after his town was shelled.
The Lebanese army issued a statement later confirming the incident.
“The army conducted patrols in the region and set up check points where it came under fire, which prompted the army to fire back at the sources of gunfire,” the statement said.
For its part, SANA state-run Syrian news agency said that Syrian troops foiled attempts by "armed terrorist groups" to infiltrate the border from Lebanon during the night.
SANA cited a source in central Homs province -- which neighbors Lebanon -- as saying that "the terrorist groups shot at Syrian border posts, in the areas of Jisr al-Qamar and Jisr Abu Suweid, as well as the Harmush, Armuta, Arida, Noura and Dalia crossings," as they sought to infiltrate the border.
Syrian troops foiled the attempt, the agency said, adding that the "terrorist groups... fled back into Lebanon."
According to As Safir newspaper, the area witnessed an exchange of fire between gunmen who targeted Syrian checkpoints along the border which prompted the Syrian army to respond to the sources of fire by shelling the area.
The shells hit al-Muqaibla and al-Hishe towns in Wadi Khaled, An Nahar newspaper reported.
The daily pointed out that the Lebanese army deployed later along the border.
Several mayors in the area told As Safir newspaper that the continuous security incidents along the border are causing distress among the residents.
Several witnesses said that dozens of families fled their homes.
The incident comes after the Lebanese cabinet decided to fortify the army’s presence in the area, tasking it to control the border and different crossings between the two countries.
The decision was taken days after the Syrian army bombarded several towns in Wadi Khaled causing the death of two Lebanese and one Syrian and wounding five others.
Incidents along the Lebanese-Syrian border intensified during the past few weeks with several officials voicing their fear that the revolt in Syria which kicked off in mid-March 2011 might spill into the country.
10 July 2012, 09:53
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FT:
how about you and the other traitors to lebanon just shut up?
isn't it enough you are traitors and now you want to spread your lies?
the army's role is to defend our borders against aggressions and they have not done so in the case of syria, rather when they deployed in the north, they were placing checkpoints in the region and not on the border. your thugs of hizbushaitan were starting to roam the area to catch people and deliver them to the syrian regime.
so traitor< shut up.
10 July 2012, 12:16
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FT
you know fpm are traitors and since you are one of them, then you are a traitor yourself.
anyone aligning himself to the murderous syrian regime and hizbushaitan is a traitor, so how about covering up for the murdors and murdor attempts of hizbushaitan?
how about not speaking up against the daily syrian regime attacks on lebanon and what this government of traitors of ours is not doing?
11 July 2012, 16:38
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BSThrower.....geha put you in your place and you know it. You are a traitor who in due time when your beloved murderers are finally put down and out of the picture....will wonder the streets with his tail between his legs whimpering along looking for a new home.
10 July 2012, 12:08
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And if the "Hizb of Jesus" was in power, who would have more leeway in the government? Do you only have a five-year memory of Lebanon? Every ideology, since 1943, who's had a dominance in the government, has had more benefits and more leeway in its actions. Don't act as if Hezbollah is this new Nazi regime taking over the country. Every party, since 1943, has been trying to take over the country.
10 July 2012, 16:53
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@extramildcake, The UK and the USA amongst a few other nations consider the "Party of God" a terror organization. This organized terror group has Hijacked the majority of a sect to monopolize the remaining others, subverted at gunpoint the political will of the Lebanese people, dragged Lebanon into a war against its will and desires, which resulted in the deaths of 1200 innocent civilians, billions of dollars in destruction and lost tourism revenue, receives monetary and military support from a foreign nation who is attempting to build a nuclear weapon with the sole purpose of annihilating the state of Israel. So to comments on your reply: There has never been in the history of Lebanon a group possessing an illegal arsenal with such destructive powers manipulated and directed by a foreign nation [IRAN] to achieve its own ends by any means.
15 July 2012, 00:00
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Slash. What this man is saying is true. There are examples of Christian parties trying to take over ( from history) as well as sunni and Shia.
Nothing one can deny. Denying is like forgetting which leads to us repeating our history. Simply, we should remove everything sectarian about our political system.
10 July 2012, 12:57
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FT you d better be quiet because you never raise your voice when syria shells lebanon...a foreign country shells yours and you defend the syrians by justifying it s M14 fault! LOL... but you never accuse hezb when israel bombs the south throwing the blame on hezb..
innocent lebanese are killed but we never read your comments as if people from the north are not worth your pity and as if they were not lebanese citizens...
you are not credible whatsoever when it comes to defend lebanese sovereignty because of your FPMers double standards...
say whatever you want but your comments talk against your patriotism....
10 July 2012, 13:49
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"demanding the army to secure borders, and when it does, they threaten it with fatwas and play tough on it in akkar"
play it tough on it in akkar??? pure fpm nonsense...people have been demanding the army to come in the north to protect the borders and the citizens for months...
11 July 2012, 00:54
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This is the perfect time to invade syria and submit this weak syrian army. We can control all of syria.....but unfortunately we have a syrian army brigade in the south headquartered in dirty dahye(lebanons toilet) that will fight against the Lebanese.
11 July 2012, 04:13
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Maronites will never "resist" to save the lifes of muslims. So dont talk BS.
13 July 2012, 23:13
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You racist. Any Lebanese should resist to save the lives of Lebanese. You're just an uneducated, shameful man.
By the way, I'm Maronite.
