Sideshow. JV.In Tripoli’s Bab-el-Tabbaneh neighborhood, where an Islamist militia already holds sway and where Lebanese army checkpoints come under gunfire or grenade attack almost nightly, support for the Sunni radicals of Islamic State is clear. Giant murals of the militant group’s black-and-white flags are painted on the sides of buildings off the main thoroughfare. “Something scary has happened in Syria and Iraq, and now something strange has come to Tripoli,” said shopkeeper Sam Omar, whose wife’s cousin—a soldier—was killed in one of the recent Tripoli attacks.
Well then, the Lebanese Army is all over this, another 'regional power' that can obviously handle this crisis developing in Lebanon. They've Humvees and troops carriers, this Islamic State everyone has dismissed to date as irrelevant can't possibly deal with this Lebanese Army, it must be quite formidible.Aiming to prevent the violence from spreading in Tripoli, the Lebanese Army has set up a string of checkpoints in the city, using blast walls to shield second-hand Humvees supplied by the U.S. and its own aging M-113 troop carriers. The army’s main target is a militia run by Shadi Mawlawi, an Islamist in his late 20s, that operates out of Bab-el-Tabbaneh.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/islam...non-1413848480
Who hates it when neocons are right, cause they were dead on balls f'n accurate on this one. We...told you so.