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Le temps ne joue pas en faveur du gouvernement - Scarlett HADDAD - L’Orient-Le Jour
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ls ont beau vivre dans les grottes selon des règles à la limite de la barbarie, les combattants de l’EI et du Front al-Nosra postés dans le jurd de Ersal connaissent bien le moyen de frapper le Liban dans son flanc faible. Depuis qu’ils ont pris des militaires en otage, ils ne cessent de jouer sur les susceptibilités confessionnelles et sur la vieille animosité entre les sunnites et les chiites. Avec un art consommé de la mise en scène, ils ont tué le premier soldat, Ali Sayyed, croyant sans doute qu’il est chiite. Mais face à la position d’une grande dignité de la famille du sergent tué et à l’élan général de sympathie autour d’elle, les combattants ont tenté à nouveau leur chance en tuant un second soldat, chiite cette fois, Abbas Medlej, tout en menaçant de tuer un troisième, Ali Masri (chiite toujours) et en jouant avec les nerfs des familles des autres militaires otages, notamment les chrétiens, pour monter les Libanais les uns contre les autres.

Si la nouvelle de la décapitation d’un soldat libanais capturé à Ersal, par ISIS, se confirme, le choc politique va être immense (et extrêmement dangereux). (Pour mémoire : un « accord » a permis à ISIS de quitter Ersal en emportant des soldats libanais en otage. Cet accord n’a jamais été clairement expliqué ou justifié.)

ISIS allegedly beheads a Lebanese soldier
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The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claims it had beheaded one of the 11 Lebanese soldiers it captured earlier this month in the northeastern town of Ersal.

Gruesome images of what appears to be the beheading of soldier Ali Sayyed spread massively on social media on Thursday, sparking unrest in Sayyed’s hometown in the northern district of Akkar.

The Lebanese Army said investigations were still ongoing and that it can neither confirm nor deny the alleged beheading of one of its soldiers. However, Sayyed’s family said it recognized their son in the images of the beheaded corpse.

Sayyed was among the 29 Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) soldiers and Internal Security Forces (ISF) personnel taken by ISIS and al-Nusra Front during clashes with the army in Ersal.

The beheading comes after ISIS threatened in a statement on August 26 to behead one of the Lebanese soldiers if the Lebanese government failed to meet the group’s set of demands, which included the release of ISIS militants from Lebanese prisons, in 48 hours. The group also said that it would kill one soldier every three days if its demands were not met.

The families of the kidnapped soldiers and policemen said in a statement issued on Sunday that the government has not addressed the issue seriously. They accused the government of “neglect” and said that the safety of their sons is the government’s responsibility

ISIS said to behead Army soldier. Beaucoup de bruit sur Twitter hier soir, mais pas grande chose ce matin. Routes bloquées hier soir à Alba en réaction à la rumeur.
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The images of what appears to be the beheading of a Lebanese Army soldier, Ali Sayyed- one of eleven soldiers captured by ISIS militants was heavily circulated on social media Thursday evening.

“Now you know who are the lions of ISIS,” tweeted Abou Misaab Hafid al-Baghdadi, linking a gruesome picture showing Sayyed’s beheading.

The victim, Ali Sayyed, is an Army soldier originally from Akkar. He was among soldiers and Internal Security Forces personnel captured during clashes that pitted jihadists against the Lebanese Army in the border town of Arsal earlier this month.

Abou Misaab Hafid al-Baghdadi claimed that he was a member of ISIS in his Twitter bio.

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“Your brothers in ISIS behead an Army soldier after Hezbollah attempted to disrupt negotiations,” tweeted Baghdadi.

“And if this [disruption] is happens again then another [soldier] will be beheaded” he continued.

The ISIS member said that either a statement or a video will be released by what he described as an “official institution" that would confirm the act.

Sayyed’s father is a mukhtar of the village of Fneideq and that three of his brothers are currently enlisted in the Lebanese Army, a security source said.

Roads Blocked in Halba over Alleged Beheading of Army Soldier
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Protesters blocked several roads Thursday in the Akkar town of Halba over unconfirmed reports that the ruthless Islamic State jihadist group has beheaded a captive Lebanese soldier called Ali al-Sayyed.

Earlier, an alleged IS militant calling himself Abu Musaab Hafid al-Baghdadi posted pictures on his Twitter account that show him cutting off the head of a blindfolded man with a medium beard.

He identifies the supposed victim as “Ali al-Sayyed, an apostate soldier belonging to the ’army of the cross’ (Lebanese army).”

The militant says the purported execution is in response to “the attempts of the ’party of Satan’ (Hizbullah) to torpedo the negotiations” over the captive Lebanese soldiers and policemen who were abducted after jihadists overran the Bekaa border town of Arsal on August 2.

Abu Musaab warned that other hostages will be “beheaded” should Hizbullah continue its alleged attempts.

Among the pictures posted by the militant is a grisly one showing the severed head of the victim placed on his decapitated corpse.

As the photos surfaced, “angry young men blocked the Tripoli-Halba road at the intersection of Akkar’s Burqayel,” state-run National News Agency reported, adding that “the town of Fnaydeq is witnessing an uproar.”

The road was later reopened as the municipal chief of the town of Burj al-Arab said the road was blocked in solidarity with the army in a “symbolic” move.