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| Leb: 'Hoblos Confessions' Lead to Arrest of Syrian in al-Zahriyeh |
| 2015-04-13 |
[AnNahar] A Syrian national was placed in durance vileDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Sunday by the Internal Security Forces in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , following "confessions" by detained Islamist holy man Sheikh Khaled Hoblos, media reports said. "The ISF Intelligence Branch arrested Ahmed Mohammed Abdo, 42, following confessions by Khaled Hoblos," LBCI television reported. Voice of Leb radio (100.5) meanwhile said Abdo went by the nicknames al-Ishmawi and Abou Musaab and that he worked at a fast food restaurant in al-Zahriyeh. The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat had reported Sunday that "a third suspect" was revealed to have been seized during the arrest of Hoblos on Thursday. It did not identify the suspect, adding however that he belongs to the same Lion of Islam group as that of Osama Mansour, the dangerous Lion of Islam who was killed during the operation to arrest Hoblos. A security source stressed the secrecy of the investigations with Hoblos and the two other detainees. Hoblos, his driver Amir al-Kurdi, and the third suspect were arrested during an ISF Intelligence Branch operation in Tripoli late on Thursday. Osama Mansour and his Mansour was the leader of a group affiliated with the al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front, al-Qaeda's Syria franchise. Soon after the security operation, Sirajeddine Zureiqat, a so-called front man of the al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... , warned security forces of targeting Islamists in Tripoli. Hoblos and Mansour had been wanted for taking part in festivities with the army in Tripoli in October 2014 and were suspected of links to jihadist organizations in Syria. Mansour, along with prominent runaway Shadi al-Mawlawi, was wanted for leading gangs that engaged in deadly gunbattles with the army in Tripoli and its surrounding areas in October. Mansour and al-Mawlawi were also charged with recruiting people for the purpose of carrying out terrorist attacks, assaulting the army and planting bombs. |
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