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2017-06-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mashnouq Confirms IS Plot to Blow Up Dahieh Restaurant Foiled
[AnNahar] Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq confirmed Tuesday that Leb's security agencies have foiled an 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....
plot to blow up a restaurant in Beirut's southern suburbs during the holy month of Ramadan.

Mashnouq made the confirmation during a meeting at the ministry with British Ambassador to Leb Hugo Shorter during which he offered condolences over the victims of the London terrorist attacks.

"A successful preemptive operation has thwarted a bombing that bully boyz were preparing for Beirut's southern suburbs," Mashnouq told the ambassador, adding that the operation involved "cooperation between General Security and the Intelligence Branch" of the Internal Security Forces.

Al-Akhbar newspaper had reported Tuesday that General Security in coordination with the ISF Intelligence Branch had "dismantled an IS-linked cell that had been plotting to stage a suicide kaboom on a restaurant at iftar time."

Media reports said the cell comprised two Paleostinians and a Yemeni.

"One of them was incarcerated
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at al-Rabih Project in Tariq al-Jedideh on Thursday night while another suspect was arrested in Sidon," al-Akhbar said.

"A boom jacket that one of the would-be bombers had intended to use was seized" at the al-Rabih Project, the daily added.

According to the detainees' confessions, one of them was supposed to blow himself up in the restaurant while the two others were involved in planning.

"They were receiving their orders from a Raqa-based IS leader through a Ein el-Hellhole intermediary," al-Akhbar said.
Al Ahram adds:
The man told police that bully boyz had trained him in north Leb and that an 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 operative in Iraq had taught him via the Internet to make an boom belt, NNA reported.

A security source said the plot was still at an early stage.

Leb has mostly escaped the violence and chaos unleashed by Syria's war, where the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah group has been fighting for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
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