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• Smugglers attack Lebanese army near Syrian border 

Gunmen fired on a Lebanese army post near the border with Syria, the first such incident since troops deployed last month to control the frontier, the official National News Agency reported on Friday.

It said the shooting took place overnight in the Wadi Khaled area . . .

The Lebanese army has beefed up its presence on the Syrian border to prevent arms from reaching Hizbollah as demanded by a U.N. Security Council resolution . . . Smugglers use the Wadi Khaled area to transport items such as cement, diesel and tobacco across the border.

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