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Lebanon nabs IS suicide bomber ahead of terror attack
[NEWS.XINHUANET] Leb's General Security Directorate said Monday that it locked awayBook 'im, Mahmoud! a Lebanese member of the terrorist 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 (IS) who was plotting to carry out a "suicide kaboom" in the country. "During interrogation, he confessed to the charges and that he had first belonged to the 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 group and undergone military training at the hands of the (slain Lebanese) terrorist Osama Mansour," the General Security said in a statement. "He took part in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's festivities and after the end of Tripoli's battles with the army he communicated with the terrorist Osama Mansour, who told him that he had chosen him to carry out a suicide operation," the statement added. "Mansour then asked him to maintain readiness until he is informed of the target and until he receives a boom jacket and he agreed" the statement added. The detainee, identified as A.A., later communicated via social networking websites with a number of IS faceless myrmidons before pledging allegiance to the group through senior IS official Abu Amina al-Souri. He was psychologically prepared to carry out a suicide operation but his arrest foiled the attack, the General Security added. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-20 |
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