Army Intelligence’s list includes 40 suspects involved in Arsal’s ambush

Following up on the Arsal incident, the Lebanese Armed Forces remained deployed on the town’s entrances.

Meanwhile, circulating information reported that Army Commander Jean Kahwaji will be meeting Baalbeck Mufti to discuss the surrendering of the assaulters involved in the Arsal ambush.

In this context, LBCI sources said that Army Intelligence has a list that includes the names of 40 suspects.According to the sources, the arrests in Arsal are conducted according to interrogation warrants since the arrest warrants should follow the investigations that prove the involvement of the suspects.

LAF troops were ambushed Friday February 1st, 2013, while trying to detain fugitive, Khaled Hmeid, suspected of involvement in the 2011 kidnapping of seven Estonian tourists.

They were abducted in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley and held for nearly four months before being released in July that year.

Some security officials have said that Hmeid crossed the border into Syria over the past months to fight with rebels trying to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Many in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town, are sympathetic to Syrian rebels. This as fears of a Syrian spillover are mounting in Lebanon.