Sep 21 Incidents

ضبط مجموعة إرهابية مسلحة في درعا بحوزتها كمية من المتفجرات والعبوات الناسفة
Authorities Arrest Members of Armed Group, Seize Bombs and Explosives
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/21/370798.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/21/370790.htm
Sep 21, 2011

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Armed Terrorist Group Injures 3 Army, Law-enforcement Members in Homs (Baba Amru)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/21/370831.htm
Sep 21, 2011

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Mohammad Asaad from al-Jiza, Daraa: Three Young Men Beat Me, Sent Video to al-Jazeera to Accuse Security
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/21/370849.htm
Sep 21, 2011

DAMASCUS, (SANA)_Mohammad Kassem Asaad, from al-Jiza village in Daraa, said three of his friends beat him severely and extorted confessions out of him that the security forces attacked him to film a video and send it to al-Jazeera channel in return for money, with the aim to tarnish the reputation of the security.

Asaad told the Syrian TV on Wednesday ''I come from al-Jiza village in Daraa. A couple of days ago, I was in my home and then came my friends Jamal, Ahmad and Ayham and asked me out, and I went with them.''

''At Ayham's house, Jamal pushed me and punched me in the face, and then Ayham and Ahmad joined him and started beating me to force me to say that it was the security who did it.''

''Later I knew that they would give the video to al-Jazeera for SYP 170 thousand (USD 3,540), and they promised they'd give me 50 thousand. However, I turned down, and they insisted, and I turned it down again,'' he says.

Asaad added that when he turned down the offer, his friends beat him with by a cable to say that it was the security who did that to him, knowing that the security were not in the village in the first place.

''When they were done with filming me, I returned home with bruises all over my body, and when asked about it, I told them that the security had nothing to do with it.''

Ahmad Mohammad al-Haj Khalil from al-Jiza related how he and his friends beat Mohammad Kassem Asaad, filmed him and framed the security forces for it.

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Lebanese Security Forces Arrest Gang Smuggling Weapons to Syria
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/09/21/370648.htm
Sep 21, 2011

BEIRUT, (SANA) – Lebanese security forces arrested on Wednesday a gang which smuggled weapons into Syria as one gang member confessed to buying a quantity of weapons and handing them to a person in Wadi Khaled town to smuggle them into Syria.

Lebanese al-Safir Newspaper said that the Regional Directorate of State Security in northern Lebanon conducted a series of investigations to make sure that a Lebanese person bought 200 pump action guns and sold them to another Lebanese person in Wadi Khaled who smuggled them into Syria.

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Iraqi Official: Armed Al-Qaeda Members Entering Syria from Iraq
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/09/12/368931.htm
Sep 12, 2011

BAGHDAD, (SANA) – A high-ranking official at the Iraqi borders said that armed members of al-Qaeda are entering Syria from Iraq to participate in operations against Syrian security and army forces.

Russia's RIA Novosti‏ news agency quoted the official as saying that Iraqi border patrols arrested dozens of al-Qaeda members attempting to enter Syria in the last two months.

He added that three busses and a truck loaded with firearms bound for Syria were also confiscated, pointing out that the armed men came from Ninawa governorate in the north and al-Anbar in the west, noting that these two regions became a land bridge from transporting weapons and ammo from Iraq.