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Turkey Extradites Sidon Bombing Suspect to Lebanon
[AnNahar] The Intelligence Branch of the Internal Security Forces on Tuesday received from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 via Beirut's airport a man wanted over the Sidon bombing that maimed a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", official on January 14.

The National News Agency identified the suspect as Mohammed Youssef al-Hajjar. According to al-Hayat newspaper, the man hails from the Iqlim al-Kharroub town of Shehim and was a Beirut resident.

Prime Minister 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
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
 has him bumped off, too.
 had personally contacted the Ottoman Turkish leadership, urging it to facilitate the handing over of Hajjar, who fled to Turkey after the attack.

Hajjar has been described as one of the bombing's criminal masterminds.

The other suspect, Mohammed Baytiyeh, reportedly fled to The Netherlands and contacts are underway between Beirut and Amsterdam to verify his presence in the European country.

The Intelligence Branch had quickly identified the potential suspects in the wake of the attack.

Hamas' Leb branch had named the maimed official as Mohammed Hamdan.

"The blast maimed his leg, destroyed his car and damaged the building. Preliminary evidence points to Zionist (involvement) behind this crime," Hamas said in a statement.
Or not, as it turns out. As was pointed out at the time, had Israel been involved the target would have been killed.
A military source told AFP that a BMW "detonated, wounding Hamas official Mohammed Hamdan," and the Lebanese Army said a "500-gram bomb" had been placed in his vehicle.

An AFP journalist in Sidon saw the burnt-out vehicle, a silver BMW, in a parking lot of an apartment building where Hamdan lived.

Hamdan did not appear to have a public or political role in Hamas, but a Paleostinian security source told AFP that he was a member of the organization's security apparatus.

"Hamdan is an official in Hamas' security service. His work is linked to internal Paleostinian affairs," the source said. "Because of the nature of his work, the fingers are pointed to the Israeli enemy."

Hamas has fought three wars with Israel in the past decade and is based in Gazoo, but it operates branches elsewhere in the Middle East including Leb.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-24
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