Report: Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians Arrested over Links to Dahieh Blast
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau carried out on Friday night three raids in Beirut to arrest suspects linked to Thursday's Dahieh blast, reported the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper on Saturday.
It revealed that Lebanese national, Syrians, and Palestinians were arrested in a raid in the Tariq al-Jadideh neighborhood without specifying the number of the detainees.
The arrests were based on the telephone calls they had made, said al-Rai.
Judicial sources later on Saturday told MTV that no suspects have so far been arrested in connection to the attack.
Meanwhile, leading security sources from Hizbullah told al-Rai that it was likely that a suicide bomber carried out Thursday's attack given that the crater created by the blast was located in the middle of the road.
They added that the explosive used may have exceeded 100 kilograms and included gas and benzene or highly-flammable chemicals seeing as a blaze immediately broke out at the blast site.
Sources from the investigation meanwhile told An Nahar daily on Saturday that the explosives were not C4 or TNT, but a more potent substance.
They estimated that the bomb weighed about 60 kilograms and created a crater of a depth of 60 centimeters, length of 340, and width of 240.
The Hizbullah sources told al-Rai that it was likely that a nearby conference hall that frequently hosts Hizbullah political and religious events, including a speech by party chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who appeared in person at the facility on August 2, was the target of the attack.
They suggested that the strict security measures around the hall prevented the attacker from reaching it and he therefore detonated the explosive before arriving there.
In addition, they revealed that the booby-trapped car used in the attack departed to Dahieh from a nearby location.
Despite the strict security measures taken in the area, the Hizbullah sources admitted that it would be difficult to prevent future attacks in the region, comparing them to those taking place in Iraq.
Moreover, he added that the strict measures may prompt the assailants to target other areas with a heavy Shiite presence, such as the South or the Bekaa, or even those of a dense Christian population in order to force them to leave the country, similar to what took place in Syria and Iraq.
At least 21 people were killed and 200 wounded in a car bomb attack in Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday.
The blast went off on the public road between Bir al-Abed and Ruwais.
Later on Thursday, a group calling itself the Brigades of Aisha Umm al-Moemeneen claimed the bombing in a YouTube video and threatened further attacks over Hizbullah's involvement in the fighting in Syria.
On July 9, a booby-trapped car exploded at a parking lot in Bir al-Abed, leaving 53 people wounded and causing extensive material damage.
In May, two rockets slammed into the Beirut southern suburb of Shiyyah, wounding four people.
17 August 2013, 10:30
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God Bless the Islamic Secular Resistance aka HA (Hussain Army) and the LAF military intelligence for their swift and decisive actions to unveil the perpetrators of this heinous act. This gotta be a landmark in Lebanese history as it represents the first time ever our security forces along with those of HA were able to uncover those behind a bombing. All the other bombings and assassinations that took place in non-shia areas were justified and did not require unveiling. They were either carried out by M14, Israel, or both. Tfehhhhhh
17 August 2013, 10:47
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Aoun was against using phone records.Sorry i forgot only m8
Crimes get solved in Lebanon
17 August 2013, 13:17
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That is because it is M8 responsible behind those blasts and assassinations against M14 in the first place. Why would they release the evidence that proves that HA and its affiliates are behind most of the assassinations we have seen in this country.
17 August 2013, 14:42
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seriously? a coalition of Syrian/Palestinian/Lebanese behind the terrorist attack against the terrorist militia? I'm not convinced.... might as well say the UN is behind it.
have a good weekend every1
17 August 2013, 16:03
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Nasrallah is simply not as clever as he appears. His foreign adventures are very much ill advised. Yet he acts unilaterally, or at the command of Tehran without any regard for the interests of the country that hosts his armed presence. He chants "army-people-resistance", but he cripples the army, endangers the people, and leads a resistance that is now dedicated to killing fellow Arabs now that Israel ended its occupation of Lebanon 13 years ago. And he does all of this in total disregard of the army and the people of Lebanon.
Nasrallah has proven himself a liar and a fraud time and time again, and an incompetent one at that. When your actions result in bombs going off outside of your headquarters it is a sign of incompetence.
Lebanese people, it is your country. Stop being sideline observers. Put an end to Hezbollah before it puts an end to you and your country.
17 August 2013, 16:42
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"Meanwhile, leading security sources from Hizbullah told al-Rai..."
LOL.
17 August 2013, 16:54
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man what a freaking joke
seriously i dont know how people can hide behind their fingers sometimes i really don't care but deff make sense all this freaking time not even one single arrest and there we go how freaking obvious yalla hopefully the more to come KARMA
17 August 2013, 18:12
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They made an arrest that quick and made no single arrest for all the killings of M14 leaders and Wiam Alhassan. Something fishy here
17 August 2013, 18:48
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The Christians of Iraq and Syria are a VERY DIFFERENT BREED from those of Lebanon, minbiash, SIR, huh (perhaps because the ones you have in mind have St. Charbel as their patron saint???)! As such, your words should be taken as the ultimate authority on this matter, mainly because you are of the LEBANESE CHRISTIAN BREED! takbir, minibash, SIR. I never thought that you, like the Bash in Israel, is an expert anthropologist. I am not sure if Dr. Arreet 7akeh is an expert at that, too, which would make him a Professor Arreet 7akeh not only a Doc of Bull. Would you say that some of the koudama who are not Syrian tools (or perhaps they all are, minibash, SIR. Awaiting your take on that) are anthropologists, too. How's falsafat.net coming along, minibash, SIR? WIs the page at falsafat.net/anthropolgy going to be ready soon?
17 August 2013, 18:57
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Imagine that, Tariq al-Jadideh. What a surprise. Maybe the next arrest should be made in France (Hariri) as he is the obvious money man for these types of operations as we saw in the Nahr al Bared clashes with the military.
17 August 2013, 23:17
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lek 5ayye go learn how to talk without sounding like a savage idiot then come back to the forum and type
