Saturday, 28 June 2014

Army raids north Lebanon refugee center



BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army Saturday raided a Syrian refugee center as well as other areas where the military had confiscated explosives the day before.


The state-run National News Agency reported that the Army carried out a raid in the Akkar village of Fnaydeq and surrounding neighborhoods, as well as the Aziziyeh center which hosts some Syrian refugees.


Soldiers also inspected al-Kafroun and Ain Banat in the northern region.


This lastest crackdown on terrorist groups comes a day after the seizure of material used to make explosive belts that the Army discovered during a raid in the northern province of Akkar.


“Military and security forces are on high alert, searching for suicide bombers and two explosives-laden vehicles,” a security source told The Daily Star Friday.


Three suicide bombings rattled Lebanon in the past week, raising fears of a return to the series of car bombings that have mainly targeted the capital’s southern suburbs. The deadly attacks, that began in July last year and lasted for several months, were linked to the crisis in Syria.


Meanwhile, Hezbollah MP Nawwaf Musawi called on security forces to engage in what he described as a "preemptive crackdown on Takfiri terrorism."


"We urge security forces and the Lebanese Army to adopt a preemptive confrontation with Takfiri terror so that they raid their homes before they come with their car bombs to ours."


"It is necessary to strengthen national consensus among Lebanese political groups because terrorism might take advantage of political disputes to incite sectarian strife and secure a safe haven to destabilize Lebanon."


Musawi also defended his party against allegations that the bombings in the country were in retaliation to Hezbollah's role in Syria, saying: "If we had not faced the Takfiri forces for two years in Syria, we would have been infiltrated by them in Beirut, the Bekaa, the north and the south."


“It is high time some people let go of their pride and admit that the mission Hezbollah carried out to face the Takfiris protected Lebanon from a bloody coup.”



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