| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Lebanese Army says it foiled twin Islamic State terror plots |
| 2016-07-01 |
| [AnNahar] The army intelligence said on Thursday that it had foiled two Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group plots that aimed to carry out attacks on a tourist facility and a densely populated area in Leb, the Army Command Orientation Directorate said in a statement on Thursday. "The army was able to thwart a highly dangerous scheme planned by the terrorist Islamic State group," the statement said. "It incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five IS members involved, including the criminal mastermind behind the plot," added the statement. "The detainees confessed to having carried out terrorist acts attacks against the army previously." "The plan aimed to target a large tourist facility and a densely populated area in Leb." Investigations have been kicked off under the supervision of the related judicial authorities. A military official told Agence La Belle France-Presse that the famed Casino du Liban was among the targets. It was not clear when the arrests took place, but the military official said the attacks were to have been carried out "10 days ago." They would have targeted "the Casino du Liban as well as a crowded area, like a shopping center, the southern suburbs of Beirut or indeed the neighborhoods of Hamra or Ashrafieh," the official said. He said "jacket wallahs and gunnies" were to have carried out the attacks, and added that investigations would follow on other possible cells and potential targets. Earlier in the day, Voice of Leb radio (100.5) had quoted unnamed sources as saying that the two targets that were eventually mentioned in the army statement were the Casino du Liban and the City Center mall in Hazmieh. Hezbollah scraps ‘Al-Quds Day’ event amid security fears [IsraelTimes] The Lebanese Hezbollah group cancelled an annual event on Thursday in Beirut’s southern suburbs amid security concerns gripping the country in the wake of deadly suicide kabooms earlier this week in a Christian village along the Syrian border. In a statement, the Iran-backed Shiite group said it was scrapping the commemorations of Al-Quds Day, citing the prevailing "security situation." It was the first time the group, which also participates as a political party in Leb’s government, cancelled the annual commemoration established by Iran’s late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Al-Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem. Al-Quds Day falls on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and is meant to be a day of solidarity with the Paleostinians. Leb has been on high alert since nine bombs went kaboom!in the eastern border village of Qaa on Monday, killing five residents. Eight were detonated by jacket wallahs. No group has so far grabbed credit for the attacks. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |