Suleiman Urges Security Forces to Remain on High Alert to Thwart Attempts to Create Strife

President Michel Suleiman hailed on Monday the “great efforts” exerted by the army and security forces in obstructing the criminal plans of extremists against Lebanon.

He urged “the military and security forces to remain on high alert to thwart attempts to create strife.”

He made his remarks after holding talks with General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim at the Baabda Palace.

Moreover, Suleiman called on the security forces to maintain the coordination among each other in order to preserve security, stability, and civil peace.

A suicide car bomb attack killed four people and wounded several others late Sunday in the Bekaa town of al-Nabi Othman.

Those killed were two Hizbullah members, including a local official, and a woman and her husband who later died from their wounds.

A group calling itself the Baalbek Ahrar al-Sunna Brigade claimed responsibility for the bombing.

The attack comes hours after the Syrian army backed by Hizbullah fighters captured Yabrud, a former rebel bastion in Syria near the Lebanese border.