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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Possible Link between Tripoli Detainee and Bourj Barajneh Suicide Bombers
2015-11-15
[AnNahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr did not rule out the possibility that a detainee jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
earlier this week could be connected to Thursday's Bourj al-Barajneh blast, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

The detainee confessed that he was planning on blowing himself at a cafe in the Tripoli's Jabal Mohsen neighborhood simultaneously with the jacket wallahs of the Bourj al-Barajneh attack.

He also revealed to the Sherlocks that one of the suicide kaboomers is called Abou Khaled, a Paleostinian who had arrived in Leb with him from Syria.

Furthermore, investigations found connections between the recent attack in the northeastern border town of Arsal and the Bourj al-Barajneh attack in Beirut's southern suburbs.

On November 5, more than four people were killed in a bombing that targeted a meeting of the al-Qalamoun Muslim Scholars committee in Arsal.

The 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....
group grabbed credit for Thursday's Bourj al-Barajneh attack that was carried out by two suicide bombers.

Conflicting reports had emerged over the existence of a third attacker.

At least 43 people were killed and 230 others were maimed in the bombing.
This attack would have been the big news item of the day, had it not been superceded by the killing of Jihadi John and the Paris attacks.
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