Rockets hit Hizb’allah in Lebanon, probably fired from Al Qaeda in Syria

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Two wounded men were treated on Sunday by their friends after two rockets hit their houses in Beirut.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 26, 2013 at 6:00 AM ET

BEIRUT — A pair of rockets slammed into a car dealership and a residential building in strongholds of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia in southern Beirut on Sunday, wounding four people and raising fears that Syria’s civil war is increasingly spreading into Lebanon.

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Lebanon’s sectarian divide mirrors that of Syria, and Lebanese armed factions have taken sides in their neighbor’s civil war.

There was no claim of responsibility for Sunday’s attack. However, a Syrian rebel commander threatened earlier this week to strike against Hezbollah strongholds in retaliation for the militia’s military support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim group, while most of the rebels are Sunnis.

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2 Replies to “Rockets hit Hizb’allah in Lebanon, probably fired from Al Qaeda in Syria”

  1. Keep them killing each other. Keep them busy and distracted. This should have been the strategy in Iraq. Turkey, Iran, Saudis, Syrians in open regional war.