KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
was allegedly the target of an liquidation bid, local newspapers reported on Friday.
According to As Safir and al-Akhbar newspapers, Lebanese national Mahmoud Abou Aalfa, who is affiliated to the Qaeda-linked Abdulllah Azzam Brigades, confessed that the bully boy group was plotting to assassinate Berri, who is the head of the AMAL movement.
Aalfa had reportedly acknowledged that several people were tasked with monitoring the entrances of the Beirut neighborhood of Ain el-Tineh and the places that Berri frequently visits.
The suspect pointed out, according to newspapers, that the scheme was to target the Speaker with a booby-trapped car by a jacket wallah or more.
Security sources unveiled that scheme was reaching the zero-hour.
Security agencies advised Berri to boost his security measures and lessen his movement amid the delicate circumstances.
The newspapers also reported that another group was also tasked with monitoring the residence of former Minister Wiam Wahad, who is head of the Arab Tawhid Party
... a Leb political party established by former minister, MP, and Syrian stooge Weaam Wahhab in 2006. Supporters of the party are mainly Druze and it is a part of the March 8 (Hezbollah) Alliance. A bomb exploded outside a party office in the Chouf in 2012.
leader.
Media reports said on February 20 that the Internal Security Forces Information Bureau had incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
, ahead the twin blasts that targeted the Beirut suburb of Bir Hasan, Aalfa who confessed of being tasked by the Lebanese Sheikh Sirajeddine Zouraykat of the Abdulllah Azzam Brigades with monitoring al-Manar TV and the Iranian Cultural Center.
The twin suicide boom-mobileings in Bir Hasan near the Iranian Cultural Center killed at least six people and maimed more than 100 others, the second attack in less than four months targeting Iranian interests in Leb.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
grabbed credit for the double bombing, vowing additional attacks in retaliation to Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
's involvement in the Syria war.
On Wednesday, the head of the Lebanese Democratic Party, MP Talal Arslan, was urged to boost security measures after security agencies obtained information that he might be the target of an liquidation bid.
Earlier in February, media reports had said that former premier
Najib Miqati has become a target for liquidation in light of their circulation of a security document alleging that a political figure in Beirut or 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...
may be targeted by a suicide bomber.
Miqati hails from Tripoli.
Reports had said that a terrorist cell was plotting the liquidation of several officials and judges, including Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid
WallyJumblat
...
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling....