Army Arrests Osama Mansour's Brother in Tripoli
The Lebanese army arrested overnight suspected Islamist Amin Mansour, the brother of Osama Mansour, in the northern city of Tripoli's, the army said in a statement on Friday.
The arrest in Bab al-Tebbaneh triggered a wave of popular protests in the streets of the city, NNA added.
The army escalated measures in several areas in Bab al-Tebbaneh and the vegetable market to maintain stability in the area.
LBCI later said that the army had detained Mansour based on an arrest warrant and that he had disappeared directly after the security plan kicked off in Tripoli.
Islamist militant Osama Mansour was killed in April by the police during an operation to arrest a radical cleric in Tripoli.
Mansour belonged to an armed group that staged terrorist attacks, and holed up at a Tripoli mosque with the aim of preparing bombs and explosive devices to target Lebanese troops in the area.
The army also arrested Syrian national Tarek Khaled Fayyad for suspiciously touring areas close to the army's positions in al-Bahsas.
They also raided the house of Ali Monzer Zoaiter in Fanar's al-Zaatrieh and confiscated amounts of narcotics and six surveillance cameras.
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Source: Naharnet
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