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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Atrash Confesses to Transporting Explosives-Laden Cars to Beirut
2014-01-31
[An Nahar] The Army Command announced on Thursday that detained holy man Sheikh Omar al-Atrash had confessed during investigations to taking part in plans to carry out car kabooms in Leb.

It said in a statement that he confessed to transporting explosives-laden cars to Beirut.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr later charged Atrash and 12 Lebanese and Syrian suspects with belonging to al-Qaeda and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
and of committing terrorist acts.

Atrash confessed that he was transporting the booby-trapped vehicles to a Syrian national called Abou Khaled who in turn was planning to hand them to a terrorist called Naim Abbas in cooperation with a man identified as Omar Saleh.

The holy man also transported boom belts, hand grenades, and different ammunition.

In addition, he transported in one of the vehicles two jacket wallahs equipped with boom belts.

The bombers were killed at the Ouwwali and Majdelyoun army checkpoints on undisclosed dates.

Atrash confessed that he had transported suicide bombers from different Arab nationalities to Syria.

They were handed over to the Nusra Front group in Syria, said the Army Command statement.

Moreover, the holy man transported from Syria four rockets that were fired from al-Hosh region towards Israel on August 22, 2013.

He had received four new rockets, from a man called Ahmed Taha, a few days before his arrest.

The Army Intelligence added that further investigations will be held with Atrash in order to uncover all other operations that the group he belongs to had carried out.

The holy man was tossed in the slammer
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
last week.

Media reports had linked him to boom-mobileings that had taken place in recent months in Dahieh, Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Al-Nusra Front in Leb -- believed to be the local branch of Syria's Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist rebel movement -- had recently warned that attacks on Hizbullah-controlled areas will continue until Leb releases Sunni Islamist prisoners and the party withdraws from Syria.

Al-Nusra Front in Leb warned Sunnis against "approaching or residing in or near (Hizbullah's) bases, and (to) avoid gathering around its meeting points."

The war in Syria has inflamed sectarian tensions in Leb, with Hizbullah backing Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's regime and many Sunnis supporting the rebellion against him.
Posted by:Fred

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