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    Islamic State’s Sway Spreads to Lebanon

    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.
    Sideshow. JV.

    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.
    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.

    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.

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    lol! neocons caused this.

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    It is a civil war between Sunnis and Shia that has been hot and cold the last 1200 years. The Neocons can't fix it.
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    I don't see anyone as fixing it, no one is calling for such. But the INNs want to ignore this and pretend it won't touch us in some way, shape, or form if we'd just pack up and come home, pretend it all doesn't exist. Naive, dangerous, even stupid...and yet it continues. Only fun in this is that I get to say I told you so. In reality, the ignorance quite sad and telling.

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    I'd get a kick out of ISIS beheading Hezbollah & Hamas.

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