Tripoli Man Killed Fighting Alongside Syrian Rebels in Aleppo
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A man who hails from the northern city of Tripoli has been killed while fighting alongside the armed Syrian opposition against forces loyal to the regime.
“Gunfire was heard in Tripoli during a prayer for the dead for Ahmed Zaki Mansour,” LBCI television reported, adding that "Moamen Kahil, a minor, was wounded in the back by a stray bullet" from the shooting.
LBCI clarified that Mansour was killed in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, the Facebook page Tripoli News Network said the gunshots were fired on al-Rahbat Street and published a picture of a crowd carrying black Islamist flags.
In November 2012, several Lebanese Islamists, including Tripolitans, were killed in an ambush by Syrian regime forces in the Homs town of Tal Kalakh.
Thousands of foreign fighters have joined Syrian rebels pitted against the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Lebanese Islamist clerics Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi have called on their followers to join rebels fighting in Syria and to support Sunni residents of the embattled central province of Homs.
Since it began in March 2011, Syria's conflict has fueled local tensions between the communities in Lebanon, with bouts of street fighting and kidnappings.
Hizbullah fighters have also helped regime forces recapture the key town of Qusayr near Lebanon's border from rebel hands.
In the wake of the Qusayr battle, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the group will stay involved in the Syrian conflict. "Where we need to be, we will be ... To defeat this very, very dangerous conspiracy we will bear any sacrifices and all the consequences," said Nasrallah.
He had previously justified the group's involvement in Syria by saying it was defending Lebanese-inhabited border villages inside Syria and Shiite holy sites in the Damascus province.
But during a May 25 speech Nasrallah said "if Syria falls in the hands of the Takfiris and the United States, the resistance will become under a siege."
12 July 2013, 20:31
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RIP.
Poor fellow... poverty got him to take weapons and die for a foreign country...
13 July 2013, 04:15
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yes and no. this guy went there because he was convinced that he should go there. While HA fighters are going there obeying orders coming from Iran.
13 July 2013, 18:53
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Man you're retarded. If you look at any study it shows that almost all terrorists come from middle to upperclass families and have some sort of post secondary education. Not the poor an uneducated you speak about. These are Muslim extremists.
12 July 2013, 20:37
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wow, how this is news! maybe more news worthy is how MP Khaled al-Daher was quoted, "The video displayed by the army during the defense committee meeting was curtailed and containing no audio material and the army attacked Asir at Hizbullah's orders." followed by Mustaqbal bloc MP Bassem al-Shab "The army's videos show that the terrorist al-Asir initiated the attack against the army whose members were defending themselves."
Please arrest this instigator Khaled Daher already!
12 July 2013, 23:29
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whats the problem with sunnis going defending syrian civilians in qusayr or homs?
13 July 2013, 00:26
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I don't mean to be heartless, but this man's allegiance was not to Lebanon as he made a choice of fighting in Syria and realized the consequence. This applies to ALL non syrians who are fighting in syria as well, and yes, this includes hizb iran.
13 July 2013, 01:01
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Poor Guy....they call him Martyr and add "with the permission on God ""
Martyr of what and for what......Tripoli is poor and people are hungry.....they just lost another manpower who could work and feed his family
13 July 2013, 02:14
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Send all of those who do not have Lebanon as priority ONE to fight; a path to peace for Lebanon.
13 July 2013, 02:26
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the1phoenix, I read most posts and the majority agree that HA and radical Islamists are fighting in Syria. The Islamists in small groups without a major umbrella over them while HA in large numbers and under the umbrella of Hezb leadership and in coordination with Baath and Iran.
We grew hair on our tongues (this is abou el-Abed speaking engleezi) asking that ALL (including Palestinians and HA) be disarmed and then the LAF will be able to control the situation and get hold of the small fish.
13 July 2013, 04:14
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Helicopter, Oqab Sakr was caught red handed, and proudly admitted to smuggling weapons to the Rebels 2 years ago! Who was providing the funds... Our Riyadhi brother from another mother... Saadadine (the defender) Hariri.
13 July 2013, 03:08
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I feel saddened and sorry about this news. My only consolation is that a good Sanni is a dead Sanni. Tripolitans, stock up on gas masks because the stench of Sannis, alive or dead, no difference, is just too much on your lungs.
13 July 2013, 15:31
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As much as I condemn all kind of involvement in Syria from any lebanese person, I still think that HA, being the only militia operating freely in Lebanon, with a de-facto right to bear arms in order to resist Israel (that's what they say), and being a political party that is part of the government, is more to be condemned than anyone else for being involved so officially and proudly in Syria. At least they should have kept a low profile, as Hassouna did initially, in order to limit the tensions within Lebanon. Why would Sunni extremist or non-extremist parties exert any restraint now in their involvement in Syria now, apart from their fear of being killed or kidnapped in Lebanon itself.
