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Report: Pre-Emptive Security Operations Foil Beirut Attack Plot
[AnNahar] The General Security Directorate was able to thwart an Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group terror scheme, that had plans to target Beirut's Central District, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday. The daily added that the Islamic State's plans were "exceptional" this time, after it managed to infiltrate the real estate company of Solidere and recruit one of the employees. The breached employee was not an ordinary worker, it said. He was the man responsible for follow-up on the surveillance cameras belonging to Solidere in Downtown. He was tasked by the IS to set a list of targets. The employee is a Lebanese and hails from Sidon, added the daily. His task was to collect information about political figures, economic and tourist sites in the said area. He was also tasked to gather information about the entrances that lead to the residence of Prime Minster Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. which lies in the area. The General Security tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the suspect on the 10th of January after he was "technically exposed," judicial sources told the daily. He confessed during interrogations that he was recruited by a Paleostinian man residing in the southern refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole. He tasked him with collecting data about all potential targets in Downtown Beirut. In that regard, General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim held talks with Hariri and briefed him on the pre-emptive operation, added al-Akhbar. In a telephone call with the daily, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said: "The General Security carried out a pre-emptive operation and was able to foil a terror attack. The detainees were referred to the military justice more than ten days ago." Islamic State 'Emir' Killed in Arsal [AnNahar] Islamic State 'emir' Ahmed Wahid al-Abed, a Syrian hailing from al-Jarajir town in al-Qalamoun, was killed in a bomb kaboom in the southeastern town of Arsal, LBCI reported on Tuesday. Militants from IS and Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... Front -- formerly al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front -- are entrenched in rugged areas along the undemarcated Lebanese-Syrian border and the army regularly shells their posts while Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Syrian army have engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border. The two groups briefly overran the town of Arsal in August 2014 before being ousted by the army after days of deadly battles. The retreating bully boyz kidnapped more than 30 troops and coppers of whom four have been executed and nine remain in the captivity of the IS group. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-02-08 |
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