Terrorists Confess to Plot to Establish Islamist Emirate in North
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Several terrorist detainees have confessed to a plot by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to stage a ground offensive and control several regions in northern Lebanon to announce the establishment of the Islamic State in Lebanon.
A high-ranking military source told al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Tuesday that Imad Jomaa, Ahmed Miqati and several other detainees admitted that the ground offensive aimed at opening a corridor to the sea across northern Lebanon by connecting Arsal with Hermel, Dinniyeh, Akkar and ultimately the coastal city of Tripoli.
Imad Jomaa is a member of the al-Qaida-affiliate al-Nusra Front whose arrest sparked the Arsal unrest in August, and Miqati was arrested in October in the town of Assoun in the northern district of Dinniyeh during a deadly army raid on an apartment that he and several militants had been residing in.
The source told the newspaper that the detainees are linked to ISIL and not the Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front and take direct orders from the command.
“The group's kingpin in Lebanon is being pursued by the army and will be arrested soon,” the source said.
The terrorists also were planning to carry out a wide-scale assault against the army and seeking to recruit more soldiers to increase defections from the military.
The army has come under growing attacks across Lebanon by militants who accuse it of colluding with Hizbullah in its intervention in the Syrian conflict on the side of the regime.
In October, eighteen suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group were indicted on charges of aiming to set up an "emirate" in northern Lebanon.
Fifteen of the accused are on the run.
Tripoli was rocked by three days of devastating fighting between troops and gunmen last month that left several soldiers and civilians dead.
The gunmen are suspected of having links to al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaida, which opposes IS inside Syria although they have an ambivalent relationship in Lebanon.
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11 November 2014, 10:03
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terrorists al Qaeda nusra affiliated noo the minister of justice said that we do not have such people in Lebanon and also this same minister demanded to abolish the military court wonder why ??!!!!
11 November 2014, 11:11
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yes everybody lies, the army, the captured terrorists, their leaders, their supporters. everybody. except rifi, only rifi speaks the truth and tells us all this "doesnt exist". thank god he is here to awaken us from out collective hallucination.
11 November 2014, 12:00
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@woman.of.the.year.
You sound just like me before I got banned. Well said
11 November 2014, 13:14
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"the sepulture of both my conscience and integrity" hahahaha (Y)
11 November 2014, 14:01
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ISIL or ISIS or Daesh or any other evil terrorist group can establish an evil Kalifate in any area of designation only when aided from the inside. In Iraq, ISIL entered town after town because people in those areas facilitated the arrival of the evil terrorists. The Iraqi army too is known as THE army of desertions, (tell me what's new here huh). In Lebanon though ISIL miscalculated because of two reasons: (1) In Lebanon for every Lebanese traitor, there are 9 faithful and loyal Lebanese and (2), The Lebanese Army is not an army of deserters, it is an army that is known to fight it to the hilt, to the very last inch of territory. Like in Kobane, ISIL is now beginning to taste its own medicine and so much the better.
11 November 2014, 17:51
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That makes them traitors if they have confessed and are fit for execution by the death penalty.
