Militants from the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State raided three quarries in Arsal, smashing equipment and taking away several bulldozers into the hills. Tripoli Osama Mansour, 27, the head of a 20-member group of militants, expressed admiration for the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State but denied that his group had sworn allegiance to either of the two. Sheikh Mustafa al Hujeiri a.k.a. Abu Taqiyeh withdrew from negotiations for the release of kidnapped Lebanese soldiers, citing a threat of assassination by a known group. Security forces defused a bomb in Sidon. The US delivered more Hellfire missiles to Lebanon and promised to provide an armed Cessna aircraft.
