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Senior Qaeda-linked figure captured in Lebanon
[Ynet] Lebanese security forces said on Thursday they had nabbed a senior member of an al Qaeda-linked murderous Moslem group that has carried out attacks in the country.A security source described Bilal Mezher as an "important catch", close to Sirajeddine Zureiqat, head of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... . Mezher, who is Lebanese, was arrested in a special operation in Naameh area south of Beirut. "This special operation is part of a wider campaign to arrest gunnies and all those linked to terrorist groups," the source told Rooters. The Abdullah Azzam group, named after a Paleostinian regarded as the one-time spiritual mentor of al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... , has claimed attacks across the region including a double suicide assault on Iran's Beirut embassy in 2014. The Azzam Brigades are designated by the US State Department as a foreign terrorist organization. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-16 |
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