Report: Extremist Network Planned Attack on Military School
An extremist network arrested by the Lebanese army intelligence was planning to carry out terrorist attacks on the military school in al-Fayyadiyeh and the army barracks in Hamat, highly informed sources told As Safir daily on Tuesday.
The sources spoke a day after Prime Minister Najib Miqati confirmed that the army had uncovered the subversive cell following a detailed report by al-Akhbar newspaper on the arrest of the network.
As Safir’s sources, which described the cell as takfiri with links to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, said the army began to find leads into the case after the arrest of a clergyman in northern Lebanon.
Through wiretapping, the army suspected that three soldiers, two from the North and one from the Bekaa, were receiving phone calls from outside the military institution to plan for the attacks.
One suspect was a student officer in the military school, the other was a soldier with the rank of adjutant and the third was a member of the navy seals.
The sources said that the army arrested the three but later released the adjutant after discovering that he had no ties to the network.
Their arrest was accompanied the same day with the seizure of five other civilians who have admitted to forming the takfiri network that sees the military institution as “infidel and atheist.”
During their one-week questioning, the student admitted to planning to carry out an attack on the military school while the navy seal said his mission lied in bombing the Hamat barracks, the sources told As Safir.
They also said the suspects admitted that the ring leader is a Palestinian named Abu Mohammed who resides at one of the refugee camps in Lebanon.
According to al-Akhbar on Monday, the Palestinian man’s full name is Abu Mohammed Toufiq Taha, who is the Abdullah Azzam Brigades’ ringleader in Ain el-Hilweh camp and wanted on several charges.
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