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| Security services 'monitoring resurgent Nusra Front cells' |
| 2014-05-06 |
| [Beirut Daily Star] Lebanese security services are following up on information suggesting that Nusra Front cells have resumed activity and planned more terrorist attacks in Leb, security sources told The Daily Star Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the security services received information that a Paleostinian identified by his initials T.M.T. was recruiting members for the cells with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks. The sources said the man had been a bigwig of Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. in Leb in the past and is currently among the most prominent members of Al-Qaeda in Leb. The Paleostinian suspect is in constant contact with Al-Qaeda officials in Syria, Pakistain and Iraq via the Internet, the source said. The source said the security services were monitoring the movement of these cells, headed by Ghazi A., 31, a Lebanese man from the northern region of Wadi Khaled. The sources added that Ghazi often goes to the Bekaa Valley town of Arsal, where he coordinates with Abdel-Mohsen H., a Lebanese explosives expert. Abdel-Mohsen also trains fundamentalists about various ways of using boom belts, they said. According to the information, T.M.T. recently distributed CDs to members of fundamentalist organizations in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh on the outskirts of Sidon and in some Beirut neighborhoods, containing instructions on how to rig cars and cycle of violences. |
| Posted by:Fred |