Report: Abu Dahr Entered Lebanon with his ID Two Months Prior to Iran Embassy Attack
One of the suicide bombers behind the attack against the Iranian embassy in Beirut last week had arrived in Lebanon from Kuwait two months ago, reported An Nahar daily on Tuesday.
It said that Moein Abu Dahr spent the two months residing in Lebanon and Syria and that he entered the countries using his identification card.
Investigations also revealed that he had held a telephone conversation with an inmate at Roumieh prison, who was arrested over his links to unrest in the Abra neighborhood in the southern city of Sidon in June.
The other suicide bomber, Adnan al-Mohammed, was a Palestinian resident of Ain el-Hilweh.
Investigations also revealed that the Abu Dahr and Mohammed had been indicted by the military judiciary for their links to the Abra clashes.
They were supporters of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, but not prominent members of his following, it explained.
Supporters of the cleric were involved in clashes with the army in Abra in June.
Eighteen soldiers were martyred and 20 others were wounded in the attack and in the fierce clashes that ensued. Twenty of Asir's gunmen were also killed in the fighting.
The fighting in Abra was among the worst in Lebanon since the outbreak of conflict in neighboring Syria 27 months ago deepened sectarian tensions.
Asir, a 45-year-old cleric who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, is wanted by the Lebanese authorities and has been missing ever since the army defeated his supporters in Abra.
Twenty-five people were killed and over 140 wounded in twin suicide bombing near the Iranian embassy in the Bir Hassan neighborhood of Beirut on November 19.
An al-Qaida-affiliated group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that it was aimed at pressuring Hizbullah to withdraw its fighters from Syria.
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