Four people were arrested in Beirut on Thursday after an overnight explosion near an army barracks. The explosion occured around 0200 local time near the outer wall of the Fakhr ad-Din barracks in western Beirut and injured one soldier. The daily al-Balad received a phone call from a man purporting to "belong to al-Qaeda in Lebanon." He said "the operation was a response to the arrest of 13 members". In January, three Lebanese, seven Syrians, a Saudi a Jordanian and a Palestinian were arrested. Police say they were linked to an al-Qaeda affiliate and preparing attacks in Lebanon and abroad.The phone caller identifying himself as a member of "al-Qaeda in Lebanon" also threatened further attacks and demanded the release of two women linked to an al-Qaeda operative who sought refuge in one of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon before being caught, convicted and executed.
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