Ook in Libanon nu gevechten tegen radicale islamitische groeperingen.

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Islamist fighters from Syria killed 10 Lebanese soldiers and appeared to have captured more than a dozen others in an armed offensive that left them in a tense battle for control of a Lebanese border town, Lebanon’s army chief said Sunday.

The new toll was reported one day after fighters from Syria — who included members of rebel brigades, an affiliate of Al Qaeda and another extremist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — carried out a series of attacks on army checkpoints that left them largely in control of the town of Arsal.

The two-day clash was the most recent spillover into Lebanon from the civil war in neighboring Syria. The two countries share a complex web of political and sectarian ties that have made the violence in Syria resonate in its smaller neighbor, where street clashes, car bombs and political deadlock related to the war in Syria have been common.

Residents, aid workers and Syrian rebels reached in Arsal on Sunday said that insurgents had seized the town but that it was surrounded by the Lebanese Army, which was shelling it.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Gen. Jean Kahwaji, Lebanon’s army chief, said that insurgents had launched what appeared to be a well-prepared, coordinated attack on the town.

“This terrorist attack that was launched yesterday wasn’t an accident, but was prepared in advance and it seems a long time ago, waiting for the right time,” he said.

General Kahwaji said that the army was fighting back with mortar and artillery fire and fighter jets, and that 10 Lebanese soldiers had been killed and 25 others wounded. Thirteen were missing and were believed to have been captured.

Supporting that theory, a video that purports to show the captured members of the security forces was posted Sunday on YouTube. It showed seven soldiers in camouflage and eight police officers in blue uniforms crowded into a living room. One by one, they held up their identification cards and said they were defecting to the rebels. Then an unidentified man in brown camouflage served them candy.

It was not possible to determine whether the defections were genuine.

The clashes in Arsal began early Friday, after the Lebanese Army arrested Imad Ahmad Jomaa, who was said to be the commander of an Islamist rebel group in Syria.

An aid worker who entered Arsal on Sunday said the fighting had worsened conditions for the town’s residents and for the many Syrians who had fled there to escape the civil war in their country. Lebanese soldiers were nowhere to be seen, and men in black masks were running checkpoints on the main roads, the aid workers said, speaking on the condition of anonymity so as not to endanger her work.

Qassem Zein, a doctor in a makeshift hospital in Arsal, said that 14 Syrian refugees had been killed and dozens wounded since the fighting started. He said he had also treated rebels fighters from Syria and other Arab countries.

http://www.nytimes.com/20(...)ver-border-town.html

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Op zondag 3 augustus 2014 22:30 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Er is zelfs een topic:

http://forum.fok.nl/topic/2134656

Wat mij opvalt is dat ze overal GRAD's gebruiken, je ziet telkens van die niet al te secure raketwerpers verschijnen.

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Op zondag 3 augustus 2014 22:59 schreef haags_kwartiertje het volgende:
Het wordt steeds gezelliger in de wereld..

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Op zondag 3 augustus 2014 23:34 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Al shabaab.

Ethiopie/ iritrea
Somalie

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Op zondag 3 augustus 2014 23:34 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Al shabaab in Somalie
Ethiopie/ iritrea
Korea's zijn ook nog officieel in oorlog.
Birma / Myanmar, nog steeds veel onvrede
China en de bezetting van Tibet
China met zijn oeigoeren.
Libie. Sinds vorige week geen ambasadeur meer te vinden.

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Op zondag 3 augustus 2014 23:45 schreef J0kkebr0k het volgende:

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Somalië en China heb ik ook genoemd, Korea's niet dus die zet ik er ook ff in en Libië inderdaad ook

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Op maandag 4 augustus 2014 08:58 schreef thom_05 het volgende:
Wel geinig dat nu elk persoon met een kalasjnikov lid is van Isis of is geallieerd aan al Qaeda of iets in die zin en tot gisteren waren ze nergens.
Ze hebben Irak zelfs overgenomen met niet meer dan 1000 man.