Newly mobilized Russian soldiers are using Iranian-made body armor.

For months, the Russian army lacked in its own stocks of Russian-made, due to previous unreported thefts.

⋯ In his interview, Al-Saidawi (Moein Abu Dhar) reasons his choice with what he alleges:

- oppression of the Sunnis in Lebanon,
- Sunni scholars being silenced,
- participation of Hezbullah in Syria,
- mass rape and torture of Sunni women in Syria, with loud speakers to “make the screams be heard all around”!

The last frame is moments before the attack.

⋯ No interview was done with Al-Shami.

⋯ But what stands out is that Al-Qaeda officially takes credit of killing Hezbullah's R&D commander Hassan al-Lakkis.

Though they got his role in Hezbullah wrong, they did indeed claim it back in 2013 in an official statement.

Group was connected to Majd al-Majd's Al-Qaeda branch