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| General Security Arrests 'Terrorist' Brother of Slain Militant Mansour |
| 2017-04-14 |
| [An Nahar] General Security on Thursday announced the arrest of the "dangerous terrorist runaway" Jalal Mansour, who is the brother of slain Islamist krazed killer Osama Mansour who was killed in a confrontation with security forces in 2015. "After obtaining information about the presence of a dangerous terrorist wanted on charges related to murder, terrorism and fighting against the Lebanese army, and after identifying the aforementioned person as the terrorist Jalal Mansour, a brother of the terrorist Osama Mansour, a General Security special force raided his hideout in the North and nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! him," a General Security statement said. It said the man, who was wanted on more than 40 arrest warrants, had changed his appearance and chosen a fake name with the aim of concealing his real identity. "During interrogation, he confessed to belonging to a group previously led by runaway terrorist Shadi al-Mawlawi and slain terrorist Osama Mansour and that he had pledged allegiance to the terrorist al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front group and fought alongside it in a military battle against the Lebanese army with the aim of declaring an Islamic emirate in the North," the statement added. "He also confessed to kidnapping a soldier in the 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... , trading in arms and transporting arms to the terrorist al-Nusra Front group, and recruiting holy warriors on behalf of the aforementioned group and sending them to Syria for military training," General Security added. The detainee was referred to the judiciary after interrogation. |
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