REPORT: Secret British squad halts IS “massacre” in Lebanon

The Telegraph reported on Monday that a British team has secretly saved a Christian town in Lebanon from the advance of Islamic State forces by constructing a network of watchtowers.

The secret British squad worked at speed to coordinate the huge effort to build 12 towers along the border with Syria to prevent the IS fighters from “massacring” inhabitants of the town.

The lookout points allowed the Lebanese army to stop IS from storming west to the Mediterranean at the same time that the terror group invaded Iraq to the east. It cut off the advance of IS fighters into the small Christian town of Ras Baalbek, in the north of Lebanon.

In this regard, Tom Fletcher, the British ambassador to Lebanon, said he believed the watchtowers had prevented a massacre at Ras Baalbek, which could have led to a catastrophic destabilization of the country, home to Druze, Sunni and Shia Muslims and two million Christians.

“In a country that has such existing fragilities, this issue would have had dramatic consequences.”

The former soldier running the project estimated that Tango 10, the watchtower credited with stopping a massacre at Ras Baalbek, cost British taxpayers £150,000 (around 235,185 US Dollars).


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