| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/08/13, 7:50 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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AARSAL, Lebanon — The Syrian civil war has spawned another violent but low-grade conflict that
pits village against village, clan against clan and Muslim sect against sect among Lebanese living on the border.
Escalating retaliations have triggered kidnapping and ambushes, and have left partisans captured, wounded and dead.Consider the hard-edged tone set Tuesday, when the previously little-known
Brigade of the Four Martyrs gathered reporters to announce that it planned to murder the mayor of the Bekaa Valley town of Aarsal. The predominantly Sunni Muslim residents of Aarsal strongly support the
rebel forces that are challenging President Bashar Assad’s regime in neighboring Syria.
The brigade is widely thought to have ties to the powerful Jaafar clan of Shiite Muslims, a sect that's generally sided with the Assad regime. The militant group made its threat against the Aarsal mayor, Ali
Hujeiri, just days after gunmen in nearby Labweh wounded him, killed one of his relatives and briefly abducted another man.
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