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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.
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From a full video release of Al-Qaeda from Lebanon noscriptd "The raid of the Iranian embassy", they showed footage of their rocket attacks against Lebanese towns between 2012-2013.

A Lebanese terrorist called Abu Owais al-Saidawi participated in the firing.
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⋯ As a cover speech, Sheikh Majd al-Majed, a terrorist from Saudi Arabia, reasoned the attacks on the Lebanese Shia community as a just retaliation as long as Hezbullah has fighters in Syria.

Al-Majed was arrested by Lebanese security forces on 26 December 2013. Died months later.
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⋯ The video features another speech, one by Sheikh Siraj Eddin Ztaiqat. He reasons that Al-Qaeda is able to recruit in Lebanon because Sunnis are oppressed in Lebanon and their scholars are being silenced.

He is alive and active on Twitter: siraje_eddine
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⋯ Next, it shows the planning of the attack on the Iranian embassy, that happened in the Beirut's suburban area of Bir Hassan on 19 ⁠November 2013, killing 23 persons and injuring 160 others. They used Google's maps to plan their path.
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⋯ Abu Owais al-Saidawi, who was seen in the video shelling Lebanese villages would soon become one of the two suicide bombers to attack the embassy.

The other terrorist is Abu Sufyan al-Shami (likely Syrian)
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⋯ 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.
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⋯ 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
⋯ Hezbullah's SG Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stated this group "is not a fictitious name... This group exists ... It has its leadership ... and I am convinced it is linked to Saudi intelligence."

Hezbollah has also claimed Israel was responsible for the assassination.

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President of the General Federation of Drivers Syndicates:

"We decided to raise the taxi tariff to 80,000 LBP (2 USD)."

Back in 2019, it was 1,500 LBP. That's a 54 fold increase.
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The Lebanese parliament fails to elect a president for the 5th time. Blank papers: 47 Michel Moawad: 44
The Lebanese parliament fails to elect a president for the 6th time.

Blank papers: 46
Michel Moawad: 43
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A 18 y/o Syrian was arrested for molesting a 8-year-old boy, in the southern village of Aiteit.

This is the second such case in less than one month!
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