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Lebanon: State Media Say Syrian Suspected of Deadly Bombing Committed Suicide
2023-08-20
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A Syrian citizen suspected of being behind a deadly bombing that killed and maimed dozens near the capital, Damascus, last month did away with himself when button men tried to detain him in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
where he fled, state-run National News Agency reported Saturday.

The agency identified the man as Wissam Dalla and said that he entered Lebanon illegally and was staying with relatives in a Beirut southern suburb where he was planning another "terrorist attack."

The 23-year-old man jumped from the 7th floor of the building where he was staying late Friday night and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital, Rooters reported.

NNA said the dead man was suspected of links to the holy warrior ISIS organization.
The Times of Israel clarifies:
A man suspected of involvement in an attack last month on a Shiite shrine in Syria died following a Hezbollah pursuit late Friday south of the Lebanese capital, the Iran-backed terror group said.

Wissam Dalla, a Syrian in his early twenties, "threw himself from the seventh floor" of a building where he had been staying with relatives "after learning his location had been discovered," Hezbollah said in a statement sent to AFP.

Dalla was "responsible for the earth-shattering kaboom in the Sayeda Zeinab area" south of the Syrian capital last month, the Shiite Moslem group added.

AFP was unable to independently confirm the allegations against Dalla.

Lebanese security forces played no role in the incident, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Leb’s authorities did not immediately issue any statements.

On July 27, six people were killed and at least 20 others maimed when a bomb went kaboom! south of Damascus near the Sayeda Zeinab mausoleum, Syria’s most visited Shiite pilgrimage site, authorities said.

The Sunni Moslem bully boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group later claimed the blast, which came ahead of the annual commemoration of Ashura, a key event on the Shiite calendar.

Friday’s incident took place in Hay al-Sellom, an impoverished neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs — a Hezbollah stronghold.

The group had pursued Dalla amid fears he could carry out another attack, the statement added, saying he was taken to the hospital but died.
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Hay al-Sellom: 2013-07-28 Billboards Vandalized By Nusra Front Slogans In Bekaa
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