Tensions High in Tripoli after 17 Lebanese Islamists Killed in Syria Ambush
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
At least 17 Lebanese Islamists were killed in Syria on Friday as they were infiltrating the country, reported various media outlets.
Agence France Presse said that 17 Lebanese Sunni fighters were killed in Syria's Tal Kalakh border area in an ambush carried out by regime forces.
A security source told AFP that the victims were fighting alongside the Syrian opposition.
Sky News had said that 14 Lebanese people were killed as they were trying to enter Syria.
Meanwhile, MTV said that the Islamists hail from the northern city of Tripoli and nearby areas.
It added that tensions were high and gunfire could be heard in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood in Tripoli in light of the death of two youths from the Srour family in the ambush.
Later on Friday, MTV said a rocket-propelled grenade was fired into the air, adding that security forces went on alert to contain the situation.
“Sniper fire targeted (the rival Alawite district of) Jabal Mohsen as an Energa-type grenade hit Syria Street,” which separates the two neighborhoods, OTV meanwhile reported, saying ambulance sirens were being heard in the northern city.
Radio Voice of Lebanon(100.5) said the ambush left 20 Lebanese men dead, adding that they hail from Akkar's Fnaideq and Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh and al-Mankoubin.
"Gunfire was heard in al-Qobbeh amid the deployment of the army which went on alert in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Tripoli's suburbs," the radio station said.
"Young Islamists from different parts of the city left Tripoli this morning (Friday) and were killed in an ambush in Tal Kalakh by regime forces," an Islamist leader in the city told AFP.
"According to our information, they were summarily executed and not killed in combat," he said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, for its part, reported that a group of 30 rebels "were caught in an ambush by government troops in the area of Tal Sarin near the town of Tal Kalakh."
"It is unknown if they are being held prisoner or were killed," the monitoring group said.
Bab al-Tabbaneh has been the scene of deadly clashes with the neighboring Alawite district of Jabal Mohsen, which supports the Assad regime.
30 November 2012, 17:37
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Yeah well they won't be missed! Fighting in another country and for the wrong cause!
30 November 2012, 18:28
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17 wahaby fighters killed in syria, anyway they will never be useful for lebanon and yesterday there was six farsi funerals in karak (kada'a zahle): results 23 less zealots in lebanon,GOOD NEWS.
30 November 2012, 18:42
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What is that you say ASSistence "I agree with ya gorgeous! MUAH! :)" Fine if you support a fellow HA conditioned servant (Farsi BSThrower) but to go as far and make passes at him is against sharia law. I don't think your master Sayyed will accept your kind....it's taboo! LMAO! Farsi!
30 November 2012, 18:55
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It's ok the Lebanese 'resistance' still has hundreds of fighters killing women and children in Syria.
30 November 2012, 20:02
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how ever you try to defend your hezbi friends, the result is the same ya chatir... some lebanese helping the FSA some the regime...
what is different? LOL....hezbis are better not the others? both are stupid but you support some stupids lol!!!!
i support no one!
30 November 2012, 20:08
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to us the image is of arab hairy islamists, but from this article, they sound like lebanese teenagers who are mourned by their families who probably didn't even know that their kids were being encouraged to "do something" and "be a man" by manipulative exploiters. I would like to know the ages of these "Lebanese islamists".
01 December 2012, 01:38
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why, because I said to us? when you hear islamists don't you conjure up huge hairy beasts? I do. They don't write lebanese moslems killed, they write Lebanese islamists, a whole different imagery
30 November 2012, 20:09
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Death to all shia!!!! Die Shia!!!! Revenge for all the the Sunna you killed!!!! Death to Hezbollah!!! Death to Iran!! Death to Assad!! The enemies of Allah!!!! Inshallah!!! You all will be burned with the flames of hell!!!! Blood for blood!!!! ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!!!!!!
30 November 2012, 21:19
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BS you truly are a piece of doodoo. Your ASSad time is near. Also, do you have a life, every time i come to this page you are here.
30 November 2012, 21:22
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It's sad to read about Lebanese dying in a foreign country, be them Sunnis, Shiites or else.
Both Hezballah and FSA sympathizers should distance themselves from this bloody conflict. I'm sure there is a far better cause for all of us Lebanese for our motherland.
30 November 2012, 21:40
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@karim-m1
You are so stupid that you always repeat the same motto.
Your masters are going to let you go or reduce your salary.
Try to invent something else!
30 November 2012, 23:12
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Yes, why? By all means go to his arms now, and stay there, im sure he needs a hug ya iraneh.
30 November 2012, 22:46
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Fashrat 3aynak, i hate wahhabis more than you probably. But that doesnt mean i will start loving the shia, who are even worse than the wahhabis, you cant even stay away from the one sin that Allah swt will not forgive. Thats how close you are to satan.
I am proud to be on the side of Omar (ra), just like Ali (ra) was. Your hatred for Omar is just a discrete way of showing your hatred for Islam.
Shiaism is doomed and its followers are doomed. Bashar el assad is a alawi shia terrorist just like his father and just like you are you terrorist alawi.
30 November 2012, 22:49
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The Syrian regime forces were tipped off by HezbIran intelligence.
30 November 2012, 23:11
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And by learn history you mean learn history from shia ayatollah liars? No thanx, i will stick to authentic history which clearly shows that Omar(ra) and Ali (ra) were allied, thats why ali never protested against omar after he became the second caliph. And thats why he married his daughter emm kalthoum (ra) to omar. But hey, stick to shiaism and its lies, its better for you because you dont deserve islam.
30 November 2012, 23:15
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theresistance, go read the quran and then come talk. By the way, iran is that way, go home. It was your nasrallah that claimed christians were invaders so dont try to sound "moderate" now, ma belba2lak ya shia majousi. Now dont forget to say ya ali and ya hussein before you go to sleep ya mushrik.
01 December 2012, 01:43
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it's become maybe the only paying job around. during the israeli occupation of the south, many joined the LSA to make a living really, what else were they going to do? work at non-existing bank branches, or imaginary huge supermarkets? how many hiites were in the SLA? tons! and who would blame them, you can't live on principle alone, you need bread which cost money....
01 December 2012, 01:58
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May God help their parents. Losing a child is a terrible thing.
01 December 2012, 03:51
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@ karim ur reasoning is....3ADE! mashewe wel shabeb style... ya3neh mokh Fadeh!!
:)
01 December 2012, 03:52
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hezbollah is the Cancer of lebanon... and the sunni extremists are a deadly virus..
01 December 2012, 06:15
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who cares?.. let them destroy each other till no man stands!
01 December 2012, 06:33
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While your Hizbullah mercenaries are helping the sadistic brutal Assad regime for personal, military and political gains, these martyrs have went to help there brothers to defend their homes and families against an indiscriminate foe using all kind of banned war weapons to annihilate anyone that dare to stand against them and anyone around them.
Maybe these men had religious affiliation but so what? It's not like Hizbullah is a secular militia! As for the M8 idiots claiming the wahabism I dare you to find me a single M14 politician that is jumping asking for religious ruling, but I still remember Nasrallah advocating for "Wilayat al Faqih"
Before you give us your hypoctrical comments look in the mirror long, long in the mirror hard. TFEH!
01 December 2012, 06:57
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Shia this. Sunni that. Allawi this .... If I were the Mossad, I would consider the job done and pat myself on the back. Look different people have different opinions and at times violently so. This is especially at a time where there is so much gray. We need to tolerate each other and build pluralistic democratic societies with a rule of law. If we fail to do so, we are doomed and whatever anyone says we will not liberate anything. We will have many destroyed families. Bashar is a butcher - that is a fact and those denying it are blind. However, it is also true that part of the opposition in Syria committed crimes and some of them are down right scary. We either agree as to what we want for our countries and start thinking how to achieve it or we are all bunch of idiot (with no lives) shouting at each others.
01 December 2012, 10:12
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Akhhhhh....at least be consistent with your posts ya FT, Hezb are fighting in Syria or they are not? Weren't they only "defending their villages"? Are they doing so by free will or following orders?? Because you and stupid mowaten laughed at the news when word came out that hezbozos were fighting in syria...make up your mind...
