Report: Veiled Female Suicide Bombers Head to Lebanon
The Lebanese army and the Internal Security Forces are on a mission to hunt down a group of four veiled women wearing explosives belts and who are tasked by Lebanese Sheikh Sirajeddine Zouraykat of the Abdulllah Azzam Brigades to carry out suicide terrorist attacks, the As Safir daily reported on Saturday.
The women who were able to leave the Syrian area of Yabrud and head to the northern Bekaa, are said to be of Iraqi and Lebanese nationalities. They are tasked to execute suicide attacks in religious places of a specific sectarian orientation, sources told the daily.
A security source told As Safir on condition of anonymity that detained extremists, captured over the past few months, guided by Zouraykat, confessed that Speaker Nabih Berri and former Minsiter Wiam Wahab were allegedly the target of an assassination bid, and that Minister Ali al-Khalil and Amal official Ahmad Baalbaki were being closely watched.
The extremist cell detained by the ISF Intelligence Branch includes Lebanese nationals Mahmoud and Hassan Abou Aalfa, Palestinian Hussein Awali and another Lebanese of al-Jomaa.
The detained confessed of an ancillary cell that handles the transfer of suicide bombers and booby- trapped cars form Syria to the Bekaa which are later transferred to Beirut.
The source added that the security apparatuses are prosecuting members of the cell mainly in the Bekaa valley.
Early in February, the army intercepted a booby-trapped vehicle in the Bekaa region coming form Syria's Yabrud and driven by three women.
The car was going to be transported to Beirut where it was to be handed over to would-be suicide-bombers.
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