Army Says 'Secret' Investigations Ongoing over Arrest of Terrorist, Denies Media Reports
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The Lebanese Army denied on Friday media reports concerning the circumstances that surrounded the arrest of a “terrorist,” stressing that investigation are ongoing in a “disclosed manner.”
“Secret investigations are ongoing and we are not responsible for any information published regarding the matter,” the army said in a communique.
Media reports had said that the “emir” of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which claimed it carried out a deadly November 19 double suicide bombing at Iran's Beirut embassy that killed 25 people, was detained by the army intelligence.
The statement said that any alleged reports published in TV stations and newspapers, including al-Akhbar, An Nahar, As Safir and al-Liwaa are fabricated.
“We will hold on to our right to file a lawsuit against any media outlet and any source publishing fabricated and false news concerning the military institutions and its tasks,” the statement added.
The group was formed in 2009 and is believed to have branches in both the Arabian Peninsula and Lebanon.
It has sporadically fired rockets into northern Israel, and the Brigades also claimed responsibility for the 2010 bombing attack of a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Islamist sites, al-Majed was revealed to be the leader of the Brigades in 2012.
On Wednesday, a Twitter account belonging to Sirajeddin Zreikat, a member of the Brigades, appeared to have been suspended.
Zreikat had claimed responsibility in the group's name for the Iranian embassy bombing.
That attack came amid rising tension in Lebanon over the role of the Iran-backed Hizbullah in the war in neighboring Syria.
Hizbullah and Iran are allied with the Syrian regime, and it has dispatched fighters to battle the uprising alongside government forces.
In claiming the embassy bombing, Zreikat warned of more attacks in Lebanon if Hizbullah kept sending troops to support Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In 2009, Lebanon sentenced al-Majed in absentia to life in prison for belonging to a different extremist group, the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah al-Islam.
03 January 2014, 13:19
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terrorist: the american embassy issued a warning a few hours before yesterday's attack.
03 January 2014, 13:23
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Did the U.S travel warning mention the next target will be a Shia like Berri did?
03 January 2014, 13:30
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they are killing their own for sure. they want to look like victims of terror they created in the first place.
03 January 2014, 13:39
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yea and surely they're also behind isis and nusra, because we all know those takfiris were created by alawite assad to mass murder alawites and shias.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/112332-salafist-jihadist-movement-in-jordan-says-al-nusra-front-isis-decided-to-enter-lebanon
03 January 2014, 13:56
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What is your proof that Isis/nusra/qaeda were created by Assad? They came from the whole world into Syria, mainly from Turkey. So all the false fact you saudi sympatizers suggest, are utter lies as always.
03 January 2014, 14:04
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Assad originally supported sunni mujahideen in both Lebanon and Iraq against Christians/Americans.
Also, Iranian-backed Shia death squads in Iraq (where shias are in the majority) have been butchering sunnis.
03 January 2014, 14:28
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So you are about to talk about atrocities and genocide, you of all with the yazid sword avatar? You must be joking boy, i can tell you another thing to your suprise, most sunnis in Syria are with their government, and all they want is to go back to their old lives, free from your takfiri salafi cancerous envoirment.
03 January 2014, 14:34
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Most Sunnis in Syria back the revolution, moderate ones who formerly backed the FSA, are now being forced into extremism to counter shia extremists. Same thing happened in Iraq, with former saddam supporting baathist moderates being driven to extremism by shia extremists.
The Syrian army is almost entirely alawite/shia, that's why they need iraqi/lebanese shia mercenary gangs on their side. The last time a census was taken on the Syrian army was long before the war began.
03 January 2014, 14:45
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What mercenaries are you talking about? The ones from Chechnya, Somalia, Pakistan, Indochina, Lebanon, Magreb, etc.? You are a real hypocrit yazid, the moderate sunnis are with the government, look around the news, they don't want you so called "revolution" they want to go back to their lives, without Khalifah. They will triumph as Syrians against foreign backed fighters, which are you and your Al Qaeda brethren.
03 January 2014, 14:52
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@Mystic : technically, Hezbollah are mercenaries (and terrorists). They are armed and funded by a foreign country to fight in another foreign country.
There is no way to escape this definition.
As for terrorists, Hezbollah terrorizes it's opponents to achieve political gains with the use of weapons, threats. Therefore, Hezbollah is a terrorist entity. There is also no way to escape this definition !
You are the same as any other terrorist groups and are an enemy to the state and sovereignty of Lebanon.
03 January 2014, 14:56
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There was a secular contingent of the FSA, and that was backed by the US/UK, but now that it's disappearing it's forcing the issue to be between the alawite terrorist government of Assad and his iranian THEOCRATIC masters and ordinary sunnis who are driven to extremism. How do you explain former baathist sunnis in iraq now supporting sunni mujahideen in iraq? The Alawite terrorist government is sustained by shia theocratic militias from lebanon, iraq, iran, yemeni houthis, etc. The Syrian government is even granting citizenship to foreign shia theocratic fighters. The Shias will lose without foreign interference, just like how the Taliban is set to re-take Afghanistan, at the end of the day, every single time, the crusaders/mongols, etc. always betrayed the shias, because they were still regarded as 'ragheaded muslims' no matter how much they pretended otherwise.
03 January 2014, 16:08
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@game: please mind your language. i despise ice-boy probably more than you do, but using such language lowers us more than anything else. hoping you understand.
03 January 2014, 13:40
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no, they were less precise. i suspect they didnt really want to help, just make sure no americans were around.
03 January 2014, 17:47
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@Yazid i recall it were the Syrian opposition, that screamed for the West to come and save them. But nobody wants to help Al Qaeda, you have to understand, that nobody wants to live with, you not even normal sunnis likes you. So just drop you hatred, and go explode yourself in a desert somewhere, without killing civilians that is.
