Lebanese authorities seized weapons and ammunition during a raid on an apartment that belongs to Sheikh Fathi Yakan, a Sunni Islamist leader who is close to Syria, state-run National News Agency reported Friday. It said members of the state security apparatus busted Yakan's apartment in Abi Samra neighborhood in the northern port city of Tripoli at mid-night Thursday.
NNA said machine guns, ammunition as well as binoculars were confiscated from the apartment Yakan had used as an office as well as an arts institution. Authorities also seized guns and ammo during overnight raids on a school in Tripoli's Abi Samra neighborhood and on a house in Qalamoun, An Nahar newspaper reported Friday.
Meanwhile, security sources told the daily As Safir that a Fatah al-Islam ringleader in the May 20 killings of Lebanese army soldiers has been arrested. They said Walid B. was detained Thursday evening in north Lebanon and handed over to the Lebanese army intelligence for interrogation. |