BEIRUT, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Lebanese authorities have
detained two Lebanese men suspected of smuggling weapons and
ammunition to insurgents in neighbouring Syria, a judicial
source said on Tuesday.
The source said a Lebanese military prosector issued an
order authorising continued detention of the two men over
suspected trafficking in weapons and ammunition via the town of
Arsal near the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Syria, which dominated Lebanon politically and through its
intelligence apparatus after the 1975-1991 Lebanese civil war,
has demanded its neighbour rein in the movement of weapons
across the border to the insurgency that has developed during an
11-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The uprising has deepened pre-existing splits between
Syria's foes and allies in Lebanon. The Shi'ite Muslim guerrilla
group and political movement Hezbollah is seen as supporting
Syria. Last year it pulled out of a government led by an
anti-Syrian bloc.
(Writing by Joseph Logan; Editing by Peter Graff)
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