News From Antiwar.com by Jason Ditz
Though cross-border gunfire between Syria and Lebanon seems to have paused for now, the tensions are still rising, with a number of Syrian Shi’ites having fled into Lebanese border towns, and Syrian Army soldiers loyal to the Islamist government raiding Shi’ite towns and villages across the area.
The Syrian government is now announcing that, having “swept” the border areas with Lebanon, they are in the process of planting landmines at every road and crossing that heads into their neighboring country. They termed these “illegal” border crossings.
In practice, the border is historically not strictly enforced between Syria and Lebanon everywhere, and some towns, like Haweek, just plain span both sides of the border, with Lebanese and Syrian residents living side by side…
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