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| Man Blows Himself Up during Security Raid at Raouche Hotel, 11 Hurt |
| 2014-06-26 |
[AnNahar] A man went kaboom!at a hotel in the Beirut area of Raouche on Wednesday as General Security members stormed his room. TV footage showed broken windows and flames shooting from the third and fourth floors of the Duroy Hotel, located in Raouche, close to the sea. According to Lebanese Red Thingy director George Kettaneh, eleven people were maimed in the blast, including seven civilians and four General Security members. They were all rushed to the American University of Beirut Medical Center. "Ambulances have been scrambled to the blast scene where a jacket wallah went kaboom!inside his room at the Duroy Hotel in Raouche during a General Security raid," al-Jadeed television reported. MTV said the suicide bomber was a Saudi national and quoted security sources as saying that "there are no other snuffies in the hotel." Later on Wednesday, state-run National News agency said "it has been confirmed that the suicide bomber is 20-year-old Saudi national Abdul Rahman al-Humaiqi." "The raid was a continuation of the security operation that started at Hamra's Napoleon Hotel and security forces are still tight-lipped over the information," LBCI TV said, noting that "the security operation is still underway in search for possible bombs and booby-trapped cars in the hotel and its vicinity." Quoting reports, LBCI said "another suicide bomber might be inside the hotel and negotiations are ongoing to thwart him from blowing himself up." Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq inspected the blast scene, saying "three General Security members were lightly maimed." He confirmed that a Saudi would-be suicide bomber was maimed in the blast, describing the security raid as "a preemptive strike by the General Security agency." Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... the shadowy Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade grabbed credit for the bombing on its Twitter account, saying "other jihadists" managed to flee the blast scene. "Our blessed operations will not be merciful on (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... ), the Crusader army (Lebanese Army) and anyone targeting the free jihadists," the group threatened. "The victory that is being achieved by the Islamic State of Iraq (and the Levant) against (Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri) al-Maliki's army is a motivation for every jihadist in the world," the Brigade added. State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr said a suspect was incarcerated Please don't kill me! at the hotel, revealing that three General Security members were maimed. "Two Saudi suicide bombers were at the hotel in Raouche and security forces arrested one while the other went kaboom!," al-Jadeed TV said. It added that two General Security members were "critically maimed." The TV network said three men of Arab nationalities were arrested at the hotel. OTV said "two suicide bombers of Gulf nationalities" blew themselves up as their room was raided. It said the raid at the hotel had to do with "the cell that was arrested in the North." LBCI said "a suitcase containing seven kilos of explosives was found in the possession of the two suicide bombers at the Duroy Hotel." For its part, NNA said a booby-trapped suitcase was discovered in the vicinity of the Duroy Hotel. "The arrested would-be suicide bomber is from the al-Swainy family and he was born in 1995," MTV said. The General Security raid followed the arrest last Friday in a hotel in the nearby Hamra district of the capital of a Frenchie of Comoran origin on suspicion of plotting to carry out suicide kabooms in Leb on behalf of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... group. That is the same group that has spearheaded the offensive by Sunni Arab Death Eaters that has swept up a big swathe of northern and north-central Iraq over the past two weeks and also made gains in neighboring Syria. On Monday, the al-Akhbar newspaper reported that Sherlocks suspected the detained Frenchie was part of a cell of four would-be suicide bombers who had entered Leb. The same night, a young, off-duty General Security inspector was killed as he stopped a car driving the wrong way up a street towards a cafe in the Tayyouneh district of south Beirut whose driver then blew it up. The bomber also maimed 12 other people. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 My dear Shipman, I should have been hurt had you missed it. It's the original, unadulterated headline as provided by An Nahar. Ah, those subtle, sophisticated Lebanese! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-06-26 19:05 |
| #1 TW don't think for a second I skipped the headline. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-26 17:09 |