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Monday, September 1, 2014
Excerpts: UAE to Egypt: 9 billion in oil products.Training for terrorist cells in Lebanon. Israel sets border surveillance devices September 01, 2014

Excerpts: UAE to Egypt: 9 billion in oil products.Training for terrorist
cells in Lebanon. Israel sets border surveillance devices September 01, 2014


+++SOURCE: Al Arabiya News 1 Sept.’14:”Ministry: UAE to provide Egypt $9
billion in oil products”, Reuters

SUBJECT: UAE to Egypt:$9 billion in oil products

EXCERPTS; Egypt’s oil ministry said on Sunday[31 Aug.] that the United
Arab Emirates would provide “about $9 billion” worth of petroleum products
to Egypt over the next year in deal to come into effect on Monday [1 Sept.].

Ministry spokesman Hamdy Abdelaziz said in a statement that the contract
between state-run Egyptian General Petroleum Company (EGPC) and its
counterpart, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, would contribute to meeting
part of Egypt’s petroleum needs over the next year.

. . . .
The official told Reuters that the first shipment of petroleum would be sent
next week.

. . . The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have together
provided Egypt with more than $20 billion in grants, loans and petroleum
products since Mursi’s overthrow.


+++SOURCE:”Report: Lebanese, Syrian FightersHeading to Iraq to Help IS and
Set up Sleeper Cells in Lebanon”

SUBJECT: Training for terrorist cells in Lebanon

QUOTE: 3.000…Lebanese, Syrian (ISIS)are based in Lebanon”

FULL TEXT: Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees have traveled to Iraq to
join the Islamic State group's fighters and to train there to set up
terrorist cells in Lebanon, An Nahar daily reported on Monday[1 Sept.].

The fighters have been traveling to Iraq since mid-June, the newspaper
quoted informed officials as saying.Some of them have returned to Lebanon
after receiving the appropriate training to establish the sleeper cells,
they said.

The jihadists have sent instructions to many followers to stay in the
country rather than heading to Iraq and Syria's northeastern region of
Raqqa, a stronghold of the Islamic State.

There are estimates that 3,000 of the group's fighters – Lebanese and
Syrians – are based in Lebanon.

Many of the Syrian fighters are hiding in Lebanese towns and working in
construction sites as a cover-up, the officials said.

Jihadists engaged in heavy gunbattles with the Lebanese army in the
northeastern border town of Arsal last month. Before retreating toward
Syrian territory, the militants, took with them hostages from the Lebanese
army and security forces.

The clashes were the most dangerous spillover of violence from the civil war
in neighboring Syria.

By some estimates, the Islamic State group occupies up to 35 percent of
Syria, or about a third of the country.

It also spreads into most of the Sunni-dominated areas of northern and
western Iraq, right up to the edges of Baghdad.


+++SOURCE:Naharnet (Lebanon) 1 Sept.’14:”Israeli Army Plants Spying Device
on Border with Lebanon”

SUBJECT: Israeli border surveillance devices

FULL TEXT:An Israeli military unit erected on Monday [1 Sept.] a utility
pole carrying spying equipment near the occupied Shebaa Farms area in the
South, the state-run National News Agency reported.The pole was placed at
the Farms Gate near Berket al-Naqar, it said.

Spying and transmission devices were placed on the six-meter
telecommunications pole, NNA stated.The Israeli army technicians were backed
by around 25 soldiers and five armored vehicles, the agency added.

Israel has on several occasions planted surveillance devices along the
technical fence to spy on Lebanon.Devices aimed at spying on Hizbullah have
also been found in southern Lebanon.

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Sue Lerner - Associate, IMRA

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