Lebanese army soldiers outside Arsal near the Syrian border in Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014
Posted on 08/05/2014 5:54:44 AM PDT by NYer
Lebanese army soldiers outside Arsal near the Syrian border in Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014
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Militants associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured the Lebanese city of Arsal in fighting that began on Friday and continued Monday.
According to The Telegraph, a Syrian rebel group set up check-points in the border city but have not yet declared the area as part of the caliphate. In addition to 40,000 residents, there are roughly 120,000 refugees living in Arsal.
The conflict broke out after the Lebanese Army arrested Abu Ahmad al-Jumaa, a former commander in the Free Syrian Army who later declared allegiance to ISIS. Officials said they arrested Jumaa because he planned to attack an army outpost.
Since the Syrian Uprising began in 2011, an estimated one million refugees have crossed the nearly 250 mile border from Syria into Lebanon, a number expected to hit 1.5 million by the end of 2014 The United Nation's Refugee Agency predicts.
The Sunni insurgents said they will leave Arsal if the government releases Jumaa, something Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Slama flatly rejected on Monday.
There is no political solution with extremist groups who are manipulating the Arab communities under religious obscurantism and strange titles, seeking to transfer their sick acts into Lebanon...Today, the only solution is the withdrawal of the gunmen from Arsal and its surroundings.”
Located along Lebanon's northeastern border, the town of Arsal is majority Sunni, a group that overwhelming backs rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, which controls the area to the west of Arsal, has vowed to help the Lebanese Armed Forces retake the city from the insurgents.
We’ve been at war with them at least since the oil embargo. We need both domestic energy and trade policies to reflect that. We also need a foreign policy that is coherent and pro-American.
To be expected when everyone is your enemy.
Not sure if serious but.... the supply of the new caliphate goes back to Amb. Stevens running arms to them in thier infancy. And continued support from our current administration to combat Asad’s power in Syria. We armed them while they burned churches and murdered Christians in Syria because - you know, Asad is bad ‘n stuff.
Israel will simply hand to ISIS their rearends.
You got it. We are in a new world war, PERIOD.
Qatar.
That’s very true, you can probably add Saudi Arabia to that odd list. ISIS is targeting their intelligence agents.
The goal is takeover of the world and killing all who won’t convert to their subhuman savage ideology.
Is that too much for the American mind to grasp? Guess so.
Suppose the Pope announced tomorrow that his goal was converting the whole world to Catholicism, and that all who wouldn’t convert would be burned at the stake. How much outrage would there be?
The world had better get its head out of its anal exit passageway.
Sadly, until a bomb is dropped in an American's backyard, few are willing to be concerned. There is a tremendous lack of foresight. This morning on Fox & Friends, they were discssing the ramifications of this news story.
Army to force out 550 majors; some to get news while in Afghanistan
Their guest pointed out how these majors have precisely the type of experience we need at this point in time. Essentially, when fire has broken out, you don't remove the experienced professionals who know how to extinguish it. We know from experience how this will play out.
Which means they’re also getting rid of the E-5 through E-7 service-members, with less fanfare.
I expect the Turks would also slide into that group. Even tho Erdogan has shown himself to be a dumbass numerous times it’s easy to see that he might view ISIS as a problem. Turkey is mostly mooslim but so far they aren’t nuts in the fashion of jihadis. And they are also NATO which might bring the occasional bit of good sense to bear.
So you got a guy with a rifle and his ammo humper? Or maybe he’s just a humper? Hard to tell who’s who with the goat herder crowd.
for liberals, never, the stronger isis gets, the more they will appease
Lebanon’s crappy army is the least of ISIS’ worries. If they lock horns with Hezbollah, they’re in a world of hurt. Hezbollah twice chased Israel out of southern Lebanon. What does that tell you?
Nah! Not as long as we still have the Messiah at the helm and an adequate supply of toilet paper. When the toilet paper runs out, that will be the time to worry as there will be no way to clean up the S-it!
ISIS is the most vicious and ruthless. Sort of like Ghenghis Khan.
Because of that, they’re winning. They’re filling the vaccuum
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