Weapons smuggling to Syria into higher level

"Assafir" Lebanese Newspaper announced that the intelligence of the Lebanese Army has been able over the weekend to thwart a Large smuggling operation of medium-weapons to Syria, after it raided a neighborhood in "Tarik Jadida" in Beirut, where it managed to arrest the group that was preparing to complete the process and referred them to the military judiciary, the Lebanese Ibrahim M. and two Syrians: Asim F. and Basil K".

A judicial source said to the Newspaper that "The detainees confessed of trying to transfer those weapons into the Syrian territory in the interest of parties hostile to the Syrian regime".

But the most dangerous issue, which drew to it the military sources, is that the smuggling operations, began to take another higher level, from the demand for light and individual weapons since the beginning of the events in Syria, to the request of medium-weapons, as the detainees confessed, such as hand grenades, machine guns, a modern night vision binoculars, shells and medium missiles".

The sources told the newspaper that "Fighting the smuggling of arms from Lebanon to Syria, is the top priorities of the Lebanese Army Command at this stage, and there is guidance and firm action taken on the Lebanese side of the border, confirms its determination to confront this issue in order to prevent prejudice to the security of the two countries and their stability.