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Lebanese police announced on Wednesday the dismantling of a people smuggling network operating between Lebanon and Syria. Two Lebanese and one Syrian national were arrested as they had been actively smuggling people through an illegal border crossing in the Wadi Khaled region in northern Lebanon, according to a statement released by the Lebanese Internal Security Forces. The arrests, according to the statement, happened on December 3 and took place in two eastern suburbs of Beirut, adding that weapons as well as Lebanese, Syrian and US currencies were confiscated. The three confessed to smuggl…