Details Emerge on Terror Cell Recruiting Minors
The General Security agency was able to arrest an extremist network that recruits minors in favor of the Islamic State group and is active between the northern areas of al-Mankoubin and Wadi Nahle, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.
The network is comprised of five members most of whom are Lebanese nationals who work under the instructions of Lebanese Omar al-Satem who runs the Islamic State group's activity from the 'capital of the caliphate' in the Syrian province of al-Reqqa, it added.
Investigations run by the General Security Directorate have revealed that members of the network were hiding under the cover of a religious school that they alleged had run in a region in north Lebanon.
The General Security detained Lebanese Bakr S., Khaled Kh., Ahmed M. and A.Mhanna, and the Syrian Mohannad G.
The group have confessed that they were preparing groups to carry out terrorist operations in addition to planning attacks against the Lebanese army in Tripoli's al-Beddawi.
Inspections have also shown that a Lebanese female “with Jihadist ideology” was able to convince detained Bakr S. aka Abou Omar to pledge allegiance for the al-Nusra Front.
The young man who is still held by the police said that the woman has encouraged him to enroll with al-Nusra Front group for “jihad in Syria”.
He said that she paid him a sum of money in order to pay for his transportation from north Lebanon to the northeastern border town of Arsal and from there to the camps of the al-Nusra group in the outskirts.
Five months ago, the General Security was able to intercept a telephone call between the woman and the detainee where she notified him that she was tasked with receiving jihadists and suicide killers in Lebanon and asked for his help.
The woman was said to have left Lebanon to Syria using a false identity card and has then moved to al-Reqqa where the contact was lost.
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Source: Naharnet
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