And more from voltaire.net - Events • Three rockets struck some 30 kilometers north of the city of Baalbek, Saturday. There were no casualties, but some trees in the area went up in flames. They were launched by Syrien extremist groups. Last month, dozens died when massive car bombs a week apart hit Rweiss in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold, and then the majority Sunni city of Tripoli. • Al Akhbar daily believes that the battle over the presidency of the Republic started on 14-March. The kickoff was given by Samir Geagea, who has profiled the new president, tailored to suit a candidate who belongs to the same policy as the leader of the Lebanese Forces camp. • The Islamic State group in Iraq and the Levant, Iraq-Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, announced the commencement of hostilities against its former ally, the Free Syrian Army (FSA). This is the first open confrontation in the Syrian rebellion. According to a statement posted on an extremist website, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant group plans a "punitive operation" against the Free Syrian Army in the eastern suburbs of Aleppo reports the daily Al-Watan Al-Arabi. • A Mauritanian Muslim cleric, Abdullah bin Baya, vice-president of the World Association of Scholars, based in Doha and directed by the controversial Sunni preacher Youssef al-Qaradawi, announced his resignation Saturday. "The path of reform and reconciliation requires a speech," which is now "incompatible with my position in the Union," writes Ben Sheikh Baya in his resignation letter.
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