DNA Testing Confirms Identity of Qaida Emir al-Majed
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
DNA testing confirmed on Friday that the man detained by army intelligence is Majed al-Majed, the “emir” of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, the state-run National News Agency reported.
According to NNA, al-Majed's DNA was compared with those of his cousin, which confirmed his identity.
Al-Majed is the suspected chief 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.
Later on, the army issued a communique confirming the arrest of al-Majed after carrying out DNA tests.
"Army intelligence had detained a dangerous terrorist that was confirmed to be al-Majed after carrying out the necessary DNA tests," the statement said.
Lebanese authorities had refrained from confirming his arrest since media outlets published reports about his arrest.
Earlier on Friday, families of those killed in the bombing have demanded that he be tried in Lebanon and not be sent to his homeland, Saudi Arabia.
The Lebanese army also issued on Friday a communique denying reports published in media outlets concerning the circumstances that surrounded the arrest of a “terrorist,” stressing that investigation are ongoing in a “disclosed manner.”
Saudi ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri had said in an interview on Thursday with the pan-Arab daily Hayat that “should DNA tests prove the person detained is indeed Majed, we will be pleased with the arrest."
Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour confirmed on Thursday an Iranian request to “participate in investigations with al-Majed given that the explosion took place on an Iranian soil.”
He said he would raise the request with the relevant authorities.
The group was formed in 2009 and is believed to have branches in both the Arabian Peninsula and Lebanon.
The Lebanese unit is named after Ziad al-Jarrah, a Lebanese who took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
It is named for the Palestinian mentor of the late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. He was killed in a 1989 bomb blast.
According to Islamist sites, 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.
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 Majed in absentia to life in prison for belonging to a different extremist group, the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah al-Islam.
03 January 2014, 14:08
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Finally. Now see what these takfiris will do anything, because they are so desperately loosing in Syria, now they take it out on the Lebanese.
03 January 2014, 14:15
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Syria is the only thing holding down the shia crescent. If Syria goes down, Iran will lose control over Lebanon anyway. Hezbollah invited the war to Lebanon when they went to Syria.
03 January 2014, 14:24
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So you are the new takfiri who joined? What happend to the cannibal guy avatar. Btw Syria is being purged this very moment, and your takfiris knows that they can't win anymore.
God is not on their side, and now out of desperation they are targeting Lebanon, soon they will be bombing Christian areas too, i'm sure of that. Thats what you warmongers wants, a new war in Lebanon.
03 January 2014, 14:31
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Sunnis are the majority, it's a matter of time. Remember, the Assads/Alawites only need to lose once and then.....
Iraqi Shias (who are in the majority) are also killing assyrian christians, so it's hilarious how opportunists try to claim that they are 'friends of christians' and at the same time they say that they are 'enemies of the evil crusader-zionist conspiracy'.
The biggest warmongers in the region have been the shias backed by iran, Shia Iran sponsored the 'crusader-zionist' invasions of iraq and afghanistan, and was even willing to sell-out hezbollah in exchange for complete control over iraq. The fact that even the iranian masters of hezbollah don't believe in the long-term viability of the organization speaks volumes in and of itself.
03 January 2014, 14:39
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Of all the secterian slogans i've heard on this website, you are a prominent Yazid. Your Al Qaeda propaganda wont help you, you are fighting a loosing battle, and it is only a matter of time before you are finished in both Syria & Iraq, you are being crushed between two fronts, and the more you make gains, the more you will be crushed. That is the reality you have to face
03 January 2014, 14:40
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You are spawning like insects, and then you will be stomped as ones.
03 January 2014, 14:49
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You Yazid salafi, are the ones beheading christians and other minorities, you are the worst example of a human being.
03 January 2014, 14:51
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Saddam crushed the iranian fire-worshippers like insects until the us invasion and the iranian backed puppet regime was installed in iraq. Saladin alone annihilated the fatimid shias. And in Iraq, there is a huge amount of instability, still to this day after many years of iranian shia maneuvering in the region. Not to mention Afghanistan, which is a total defeat for the US and Iran, the Taliban is defeating everyone in their path. When the US leaves Afghanistan, the Taliban will be back in power. Shias only do well when they have foreign assistance, without foreign support from the crusaders/mongols, etc. shias don't stand a chance. Even the Safavids had to form an alliance with the Habsburgs against the Ottomans. Selim even conquered the Safavid capital. LOL
03 January 2014, 14:53
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Yazid, it's actually the Sunni in northern Iraq where the Christians live that are killing them not the Shia. The Christians in Iraq do not live by the Shia.
03 January 2014, 14:58
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@zahle1
In Iraq, it's both shia and sunni extremists who are killing each other including assyrian christians.
You see here the mahdi army killing an assyrian girl for being christian.
http://www.aina.org/news/20050324155721.htm
And a Shiite Iraqi Ayatollah has issued a fatwa to convert to Islam or die for iraqi christians:
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Shiite-ayatollah-launches-fatwa:-Iraqi-Christians,-conversion-to-Islam-or-death-26636.html
03 January 2014, 15:00
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He killed many people indeed, not just shias, also kurds whom are sunnis. But his biggest mistake was when he lost in Iran, he thought he could win, even by using tons of gas and scuds. Back then he was also supported by US. Against the Iranians
03 January 2014, 15:09
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Al Qaeda propaganda, you should change that with a saudi sheikh pledging fatwas. Yazid
03 January 2014, 15:11
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Zahle, it's true what you are saying. Normal people wouldn't give such a fatwa. Christians must be protected just like all other minorities, but unfortunately people like this new Caliph, wants all other religions except Wahabism to be exterminated.
03 January 2014, 18:30
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Most Sunnis in Syria are against the shia terrorist hegemony, same as in iraq and even lebanon. Many former iraqi baathist sunnis are now supporters of the mujahideen, just the same.
03 January 2014, 18:33
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@sagh
Go look at the Safavid conversion of Iran. Iranians were Sunnis up until the safavid turk shia invaders engaged in the mass-conversion of iranians by the sword to the shia creed. Anything that can be said for islam in general, can also be said for that of the shia.
03 January 2014, 14:23
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nooooo, there is no al quaeda in Lebanon , listen to some politicians they confirm it
03 January 2014, 14:57
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Yeyyy...
Thank u kana... This is ur new year resolution? Btw 14 march are saudi? Takfiri? Zionist? Imberialiyeh? Bc i'm a litle confused there or did the all world united against hezbollah and syrian regime?...
In fact it did, last un resolution in favor of syrian revolution and against assad regime was backed by 190 countries in Un general assembli...
U would hv had ur plus one but u are using the name of a village that represent resistance against israel , and this as the name of the resistance used by hezbollah is missliding and an insult to true lebanese resistant as georges hawi....
So no plus one for u, but keep the good work..
03 January 2014, 15:48
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No matter who is caught in Lebanese jurisdiction, he or she must remain under Lebanese jurisdiction. If in case the man is wanted by the Saudi authorities fir crimes he committed in the KSA, and in Lebanon he did no harm, then if in case there is an extradition between our two countries, then yes, his return to the KSA to face justice there could be negotiated under terms to be mutually agreed upon. But in the case where the suspect has been proven to commit crimes in Lebanon, then he has to face Lebanese justice. That so far now is explained, but my fear remains that this terror suspect will be shipped incognito to the KSA under some dubious arrangements and even more dubious excuses. We've seen that happen enough in recent memory to feel highly suspicious of Lebanese authorities, most of whom are easily bought.
03 January 2014, 16:00
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If he is wanted in Saudi, they will behead him. if he is wanted in Lebanon, he will go take drugs in Roumieh prison.
