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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Roumieh Guard Arrested for Attempting to Smuggle Explosives in a Sandwich
2013-10-04
[An Nahar] An attempt to smuggle kaboom through sandwiches was thwarted at Roumieh prison, reported LBCI television on Thursday.
"Who ordered the TNT, lettuce, and tomato?"
It said that 150 grams of kaboom were discovered in a sandwich that was being delivered to inmate Charbel Shalita, the murderer of Roland Chbeir.

The National News Agency later reported that a members of prison security was delivering the sandwich to the prisoner.

The explosives were discovered on the security guard during a routine security check as he was entering the prison to start his shift.

He confessed that Shalita had requested that he obtain the explosives that can be used to heat water.

The NNA added however that the material, with certain modifications, can be turned into an explosive substance.

According to the prisoners, this was not the first time that kaboom was smuggled into the prison, and to its B block in particular where Fatah al-Islam
A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred.
inmates are being tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
, reported LBCI.

After the discovery in the sandwiches, Shalita was interrogated by state Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr and his cell was searched.

Investigations are underway to determine to whom the explosives were being smuggled to, said LBCI.

The NNA said however that Shalita, under pressure from the Fatah al-Islam inmates, was going to transfer the explosives to them.

Shalita was placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in 2012 after confessing to the murder of his friend Roland Chbeir in October of that year.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "Must have been that bean I ate"
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2013-10-04 21:40  

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