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’ISIS’ Smuggles Syrian Artifacts through Lebanon

’ISIS’ Smuggles Syrian Artifacts through Lebanon
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The an-Nahar Lebanese daily reported on Wednesday that "ISIS" terrorist group is using some stores in Lebanon as a front for its smuggling of Syrian artifacts.

’ISIS’ Smuggles Syrian Artifacts through Lebanon

The newspaper further revealed that a recently arrested "ISIS" member confessed to being related to the owner of a butcher shop in the northern city of Tripoli and that the meat shipments received from Syria are not limited to the products he sells in his shop.

It was back in April that the Lebanese army arrested Syrian Turki al-Falqoun in the eastern city of Baalbek for lacking proper identification papers.

He was handed over to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau, which discovered after carrying out investigations with him that he was in contact with an Egyptian individual known as Abo Mo'tasem, a member of the group.

Falqoun was found to have visited Egypt, Turkey, and Algeria and he may have had a role in recruiting new members to the terrorist group.

Falqoun, also related to another Syrian who owns a butcher shop in Tripoli, used to carry out trade with Syrian butchers in Homs and Hama, who send him products on a daily basis.

These products do not only contain meat, but narcotic pills, rare artifacts, and large amounts of gold, according to the daily.

Besides, the shipments also included smuggled explosives.

Source: An-Nahar Newspaper, Edited by website team

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