Report: General Security Arrests Female Suicide Bomber Heading to Saudi Arabia

The General Security detained a suicide bomber at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport on her way to Saudi Arabia, media reports said on Wednesday.

According to As Safir newspaper, Fatima al-Khalida was traveling to Riyadh when the General Security members detained her upon a document circulated by the Lebanese Army.

Al-Khalida is reportedly one of the suicide bombers who were going target the Iranian Embassy based on a scheme prepared by Saudi national Abou Hamza al-Muhajir.

Al-Akhbar newspaper said that the General Security will refer the detainee, al-Khalida, to the army for further investigation.

Al-Muhajir was a senior aid to slain leader of al-Qaida in Iraq Abou Musab al-Zarqawi.

Al-Muhajir assumed the leadership of al-Qaida branch in Iraq after the death of Zarqawi in an airstrike in 2006.

In 2010, the U.S. military confirmed the death of al-Muhajir in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.

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