Arrest Warrants for 5 Syrians, 2 Lebanese Held over Ballouneh, Aramoun Rockets
Military Investigative Judge Fadi Sawwan on Monday interrogated the members of the so-called Ballouneh cell, who had been arrested on charges of firing rockets on Baabda.
The state-run National News Agency identified the Syrian suspects as Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Abdul Karim al-Debs, aka Abi Osama, Mohammed Ismail, Ammar Ismail, Mohammed al-Mdawwar and "Hisham." It identified the Lebanese detainees as Mohammed al-Takwir and Bassam al-Kaaki.
The agency said Debs confessed to "firing the rockets from Ballouneh and four rockets from Aramoun and disclosed all the details of the operations."
“Debs confronted his co-defendants with the details of their deeds during an interrogation conducted by Sawwan,” NNA added.
The judge issued arrest warrants for the seven suspects on terror- and weapon-related charges.
He also received a new lawsuit in the case, containing the name of Jamal Ismail, the father of the detained suspects Mohammed and Ammar. Sawwan set Thursday as a date for interrogating him.
On August 30, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered the detention of suspects allegedly involved in the cases of firing rockets from Ballouneh on Baabda and from the South towards Israel.
Media reports had said that the suspected intended to target the Defense Ministry in Yarze. But one rocket hit a high-voltage power line in a nearby town and a second rocket failed to launch. The launchpads were found in Ballouneh.
On August 1, two rockets fired from an area near the town of Aramoun in Aley struck locations near the presidential palace and the Defense Ministry in Baabda.
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