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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
LSF Arrests Terrorist Cell Plans to Stir up Sedition in Beirut
2015-09-16
[ALMANAR.LB] The Lebanese Army locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on Tuesday a terrorist network of the so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group that was planning to carry out bombings and to task persons with participating in Beirut's popular set-ins to stir up sedition in the country.

In a similar development, the Lebanese Army said in a statement that it arrested an alleged ISIL security official on the northeastern border.

The statement released Tuesday night said the Army arrested Ibrahim Qassem Atrash who took part in the kidnapping of soldiers and coppers during the 2014 festivities in Arsal region, as well as firing rockets at a number of towns in the northern Bekaa Valley, rigging cars, and killing or wounding civilians in gunfire.

Atrash has been referred to the judiciary after investigations with the Army were finalized.
Posted by:Fred

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