Lebanon

Seven suspects charged with firing rockets in June at Hezbollah targets in Beirut confessed to membership in the Tal Kalakh Martyrs’ Battalion, a Free Syrian Army unit financed by a Syrian living in Turkey. So far, 14 people have been charged in the case; seven suspects remain at large. A Tripoli man was arrested for selling arms to Free Syrian Army rebels. A pro-Assad sheikh in Tripoli was wounded by a car bomb. Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem criticized the US for its planned military intervention in Syria.

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