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| Qahwaji Confirms Discovery of Terrorist Cell 'Aimed at Creating Strife in Lebanon' |
| 2013-08-22 |
| [An Nahar] Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji declared on Wednesday "war against terrorism" that will not stop before any intimidation or kaboom, reported Voice of Leb radio (93.3). He confirmed during a ceremony to commemorate retired officers "the discovery of a terrorist cell in Leb aimed at creating strife and carrying out attacks in the country." The security forces, in cooperation with political authorities, are exerting efforts to apprehend the members of the cell, he stated. The attacks they were planning could target any region in Leb regardless of its sectarian identity, the army commander warned. "The war on terror is an international and regional one that is taking place in coordination with friendly intelligence agencies," remarked Qahwaji. "The situation in Leb is very dangerous and it requires exceptional internal efforts to confront it," he stressed. On Monday, the General Directorate of General Security circulated the pictures of two suspects accused of forming a "terrorist network" that was allegedly plotting to detonate the car bomb that was discovered Saturday in Naameh. "Lebanese national T. B. T. and the Paleostinians A. H. S., aka Abu Youssef, and his brother Kh. H. S. are being held at the directorate on charges of forming a terrorist network, conducting acts of sabotage in the country, and plotting to stage a kaboom through the seized car," it added. The directorate said the rest of the network's members are on the run, identifying two of them as "Lebanese national Mohammed Qassem al-Ahmed, born in Beirut in 1983 and a resident of Haret al-Naameh, and Lebanese national Saeed Mohammed Bahri, born in Beirut in 1985 and a resident of Dawhat Aramoun." |
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