Report: Extremist Network Planned Attack on Military School
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
An extremist network arrested by the Lebanese army intelligence was planning to carry out terrorist attacks on the military school in al-Fayyadiyeh and the army barracks in Hamat, highly informed sources told As Safir daily on Tuesday.
The sources spoke a day after Prime Minister Najib Miqati confirmed that the army had uncovered the subversive cell following a detailed report by al-Akhbar newspaper on the arrest of the network.
As Safir’s sources, which described the cell as takfiri with links to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, said the army began to find leads into the case after the arrest of a clergyman in northern Lebanon.
Through wiretapping, the army suspected that three soldiers, two from the North and one from the Bekaa, were receiving phone calls from outside the military institution to plan for the attacks.
One suspect was a student officer in the military school, the other was a soldier with the rank of adjutant and the third was a member of the navy seals.
The sources said that the army arrested the three but later released the adjutant after discovering that he had no ties to the network.
Their arrest was accompanied the same day with the seizure of five other civilians who have admitted to forming the takfiri network that sees the military institution as “infidel and atheist.”
During their one-week questioning, the student admitted to planning to carry out an attack on the military school while the navy seal said his mission lied in bombing the Hamat barracks, the sources told As Safir.
They also said the suspects admitted that the ring leader is a Palestinian named Abu Mohammed who resides at one of the refugee camps in Lebanon.
According to al-Akhbar on Monday, the Palestinian man’s full name is Abu Mohammed Toufiq Taha, who is the Abdullah Azzam Brigades’ ringleader in Ain el-Hilweh camp and wanted on several charges.
13 March 2012, 08:52
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Further criminal activity by our guests. And to think that some big names of the M8 movement red lined the bombing of such people.
13 March 2012, 08:58
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to hell with them: let them fry.
these guys were supported by the syrian regime to fight in iraq then they turned them to lebanon.
13 March 2012, 09:27
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If the regime did it, they would have buried them in mass graves, or cremated them. Last thing the regime want is adding things to its score. If they did it, then why stop at that number. Their punishment would be the same no matter what the number is. I heard they are good at making people disappear, I guess they are not that good.
13 March 2012, 10:23
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yes "Last thing the regime want is adding things to its score" !
what about the daily massacres of women and children? blind, blind and blinder:)
13 March 2012, 18:34
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Why do you say I am blind. I am not waiting for the regime to win or lose, because I could care less. Your comments have an alterior motives, mine don't.
13 March 2012, 10:22
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go check who is abdullah azzam and what he did then you will agree on all the comment.
oh no! you are blind: you will see he is from KSA and forget who is financing him. :)
13 March 2012, 12:56
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idiots. there is no difference. lebanese are grey people in the eyes of the west, you can paint yourself white you'll still be lebanese
13 March 2012, 13:33
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kill them all, seize all their assets or deport the non lebanese to their place of origin.
13 March 2012, 19:41
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It is our acts of terrorism against the west and against each other during the civil war is what resulted in how the West see the Lebanese. I am old enough to remember that the West looked at Lebanon as the Switzerland and the Riviera of the Middle East in the 60s and 70s and they looked at Lebanese emigrants in the West in a positive way and thought very highly of them. But unfortunately Lebanon has changed not only in the eyes of the West, but it has changed for the worse PERIOD.
