...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terror group and for planning kabooms at religious places.
"As part of preventive security operations carried out by the ISF Information Division in monitoring the activities of terrorist cells, especially those associated with the IS terrorist group, the Division has been able to monitor and identify a resident of south Leb who spreads the ideology of the organization on social media and recruits people for its benefit," said the statement.
The suspect was identified as Z.M. a Syrian living in the Lebanese southern town of Yater, said the statement.
He confessed during investigation to having links to the IS and to having promoted its ideology through a number of online channels and applications.
He said he had links to individuals outside Leb who assisted him in the creation of social networking sites promoting the ideology of ​​the organization.
After a video released of IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...praising the kabooms in Sri Lanka, the suspect said he got a spray can and clandestinely at night sprayed slogans on a wall at the entrance of Yater that said "Grandson of Abu Bakr Baghdadi," and "Islmaic State" at the bottom.
With his partners, he discussed the idea of ​​simulating the Sri Lankan attacks in Leb and targeting churches, hussainia in shiite towns and villages in south Leb including attacks at churches and killing the largest number of worshippers, said the statement.
He said he accessed websites of jihadis and downloaded links that filmed tutorials of how to make improvised bombs for reference.
He had contacts with another Syrian national identified as S.B. (arrested by ISF) whom he recruited for the purpose.
The two men were referred to the judiciary.
| The Times of Israel translates some of that as follows: |
The suspect, a 20-year-old Syrian national from the south Leb village of Yater, was in contact with people abroad who helped him set up social networking sites to disseminate IS propaganda, it says in a statement.
He also downloaded a manual compiled by followers of the jihadist group instructing readers on how to build explosives, the statement adds.