Syrian Rebels Attack Lebanese Army Post Along Border
No Casualties Reported in Battle
The Lebanese military has deployed reinforcements to the Arsal region, near the border with Syria, after Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels attacked a military post near the border, sparking a brief gunbattle before fleeing into the mountains.
The statement from the Lebanese Army says that this was the “second time in under a week” that a unit from the FSA, made up chiefly of Syrian military defectors, has crossed the border into the territory.
No casualties were reported in the initial clash, and the military says that they have deployed troops into the mountainous region along the border to try to track down the fighters responsible for the attack.
As fighting in Syria’s civil war has gotten close to the borders with Lebanon and Turkey, the rebels have regularly crossed the border in an attempt to outflank the Syrian military, which could not pursue them without creating an international incident.
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mojo
September 24th, 2012 at 2:51 am
All options are on the table, every imaginable atrocity, inhuman acts, all kind of wrong doings that one barbarian or in this case these "rebels" can think of is a opportunity to continue this war even widding it to Lebanon or turky. By themselves, these people are nobody, but as long as they are supported by eu, Saudis, UAE, and us governments, getting false information that they are winning and that they are about to overthrowe the syriangoverment, they get this psychological feeling of power adding to their stupidity continuing this war. We said that from day one that this war is going to be long one, the regime of Sarkozi has changed to a Social Democracy, Swiss made grenades are used, sooner or later you will find a Swedish made weapon among other in hand of these people, it's all about widdning and prolonging this war, because barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, the english and Swedish neo liberal fascism have decided for Syrian people to suffer, be ause the kingdom tyrants of Sweden an England have sai so, this is the modernised version of the "west democracy" which not only slaving their own people but others needs to suffer as well, all this is because of the fact that Saudis are promissed to be protected if they give the oil to west while west becoms obligated to protect these feudal regimes.