LAF arrest number of suspects, raid weapons storehouse in Tripoli

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09-04-2014 | 10:35
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LAF arrest number of suspects, raid weapons storehouse in Tripoli
The Lebanese army announced that it arrested a number of suspects in Tripoli involved in security incidents in Lebanon's northern city.

In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, the army said it raided a weapons storehouse in the city, arresting its owner, identified solely as S.Z.

The Lebanese army added that it confiscated weapons, ammunition, and rockets at the cache, as well as material used to manufacture explosives.

The army noted that such a step comes as part of the security plan being implemented in the northern city.

In addition, the army had arrested a suspect identified as R.A., in Bab al-Tabbaneh's al-Baraniyeh area on charges of opening fire at an army patrol.

The Lebanese Armed Forces also detained suspects A.A. and A.M. in Tripoli's al-Qobbeh neighborhood on charges of carrying out sectarian attacks and seized a number of ammunition found at their place of arrest.

The army kicked off its security plan in Tripoli last week in a bid to put an end to the clashes between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.

The implementation of the security plan was faced with angry protests and attacks on LAF soldiers and officers where angry men tossed several hand grenades in the city's al-Baraniyeh region as residents shortly blocked the roads of al-Dabagha and the wheat market with burning tires.

The port city of Tripoli has long been a stronghold of Sunni Islamists in northern Lebanon.

But the city has become increasingly volatile in recent months due to the civil war in neighboring Syria, where the Sunni majority is leading a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli. These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab Tabbaneh district and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.

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