Report: Army Seizes RPGs as 3 People Arrested in Syria Arms Smuggling Plot
A Lebanese and two Syrians have admitted to trying to smuggle arms to Syria to support anti-regime protestors in the neighboring country, a judicial source told As Safir daily published Saturday.
The newspaper said that the army intelligence thwarted the plot earlier in the week after it raided a neighborhood of the Beirut district of Tariq al-Jdideh and arrested Lebanese Ibrahim M. and Syrians Assef F. and Bassel Q.
The army seized in the raid Rocket Propelled Grenades, hand grenades, Kalashnikov rifles, night-vision goggles and Inerga-type RPGs, As Safir said.
It quoted sources as saying that the issue of arms smuggling to Syria has become a top priority for the Lebanese army which has taken strict measures on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria.
Such measures confirm the army’s resolve to confront any attempt that would threaten the security and stability of the two countries, they said.
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