IDs Used by Bir Hassan Suicide Attackers Released, Hotel Where They Spent Last Hours under Inspection
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربيةOTV aired on Thursday evening the fake identity cards used by the suicide attackers behind the blasts in Beirut's Bir Hassan neighborhood as security forces embarked on searching the hotel where they stayed on their last night.
"Security forces are trying to examine the pictures on the IDs to determine whether they are real or fake,” OTV said.
Meanwhile, LBCI television reported also on Thursday evening that State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered the army intelligence to inspect the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel in the Beirut neighborhood of Verdun, as reports said it was where the attackers spent their last night before their deadly operation.
"The army intelligence searched one room in the hotel and confiscated several possessions of two people that stayed there,” LBCI said.
The same source noted that the hotel's administration gave investigators all the information it has about the two men, as well as the recorded footage of the Sheraton's security cameras.
An eyewitness at the hotel remarked that the two men's accent was not that of Syrians or of people who hail from the Gulf, according to the television channel.
LBCI added: “The suspects resided there for four days and they had fake Lebanese IDs, one of them belonged to a person who hails from Beirut, and the other to a person from the Iqlim al-Kharroub town of Barja.”
"Investigation is now focused on trying to reveal how the suicide attackers, who are not from Lebanon, were able to enter Lebanese territories as well as attempting to identify to which group they belonged. The probe is also working on uncovering information about the car that was used in the operation, which was taken from Beirut to the Bekaa and later to Syria.”
At least 23 people were killed and more than 145 others were wounded in a twin blast that took place on Tuesday morning near the Iranian Embassy in the neighborhood of Bir Hassan in Beirut's southern suburbs.
A security official said the first suicide attacker was on a motorcycle that carried two kilograms of explosives. He blew himself up at the large black main gate of the Iranian mission, damaging the three-story facility.
Less than two minutes later, the second suicide attacker driving a car rigged with 50 kilograms of explosives struck about 10 meters away, the official said.
The al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to the Twitter page of a cleric linked to the group.
"The Abdullah Azzam brigades - the Hussein bin Ali cells - are behind the attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut," Sheikh Sirajeddine Zuraiqat, the group's religious guide, posted on Twitter.
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I wish they could have released so quickly the Id of Aboul Adass , supposedly behind Hariri's murder…! The ID of the contract killer from the Hizb assigned to kill Boutros Harb ! And all those missing (but well known ID's) of the serial killers in operation under the basij and baath commands since the early 80's !
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Amazing indeed. They even found the IDs of the suicide bombers. But in Harriri and Pierre's assassinations they found nothing.... nothing....and nothing.....!!!!
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OTV claimed he was a suicide bomber, and i just read in Nahar newspaper the poor guy is alive and appeared on TV to deny his involvement!!!!!
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ha ha no way, poor kids. we're making fun of them yet they are innocent.
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GabbyMarch14, he looks like your cousin allouchti! Have you heard oh him lately?
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Out of the 8 comments posted already, not one of them is condemning this horrific terrorist act that happened in your country and has killed and injured your countrymen. All you guys seem to want to do is crack non-funny jokes. Its a shame.
What is even worse is that these attacks will continue to happen. But I guess that does not matter to you guys.
None of you live in Lebanon.
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@actionman
Good day.
Is this what you have come up with? "Why did they distribute baklawa??"
You guys are on here making jokes while my country drowns ever further in the blood of its own sons.
The Saud family is upset they have been defeated so they take their anger out on my country. Are we supposed to be ok with this??
Forgive me for not being amused by your jokes.
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@whyaskwhy
I do not know how to respond to your post.
1) It does not make sense
2)If you don't know that the Saudi hand behind this then there is no point in discussing it with you.
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it's the Four Points Hotel in Verdun, not the Four Seasons. Highly doubt people blowing themselves up are going to stay at a 5-star hotel before they do.