Police arrested Hussain Ismail, the head of a car theft ring in the Bekaa valley, after a shootout in which he and an associate, and two police officers, were wounded. A group called the Free Sunni Brigades claimed the firing of three rockets from Syria into Lebanon near Labweh. The military prosecutor issued arrest warrants for 38 more suspects linked to violence in Tripoli; only two are in custody. The US gave eight gunboats to the Lebanese Navy.
