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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ID of Hermel Suicide Bomber 'Mere Joke' as Alleged Suspect Denies Reports
2014-02-04
[An Nahar] An alleged suspect of the suicide kaboom that targeted Hermel over the weekend denied media reports that accused him, considering it a "joke."

"I have no links to the bombing in Hermel. It was a joke by a guy and without my prior knowledge," he told LBCI.

Ahmed Abdul Karim, who was suspected of carrying out the suicide kaboom that targeted a petrol station in Hermel, said a guy informed media outlets that he carried out the attack showing them his military identification card.

A military identification paper of Abdul Karim went viral over social media early on Monday.

Fnaideq municipal chief Khaldoun Taleb also denied the alleged jacket wallah hails from the northern village in district of Akkar, offering his condolences to the families of the victims.

The municipal chief deemed media reports concerning the name of the suicide bomber as false as no one in the records of the town hold the circulated names.

Media reports said that the suicide bomber hails from the town of Fnaideq.

On Saturday, a suicide kaboom hit the area anew after a suicide bomber set explosives inside a Grand Cherokee inside a petrol station.

The Al-Nusra Front in Leb claimed the attack on Twitter, saying it was a suicide kaboom in response to Hizbullah's involvement in Syria.

It was the seventh attack to target Hizbullah in Leb since mid-2013, when the group sent men to Syria to fight alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
's troops against mainly Sunni rebel groups.

Taleb stressed on the historical ties between Fnaideq and the northeastern town of Hermel, condemning the attack that targeted the town.

The municipal chief said that the "residents of Fnaideq denounce such terrorist acts and those who carry them out."

He offered his condolences to the families of the victims, considering that "what targeted Hermel targets all Leb."
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