Lebanese security agents arrested a terrorist mastermind at a Beirut hotel Tuesday and confiscated a list of targets for possible terrorist attacks, a reliable source said. The source also said that the suspect was carrying a forged Lebanese identity card that identified his first name as Agop, which is a common Armenian name in Lebanon. However, the suspect is a national of a gulf country and has been living at a hotel in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district for 10 days, according to the source.The source, who asked not to be identified, said Police anti-terrorism officers busted the suspect's suite, arrested him and confiscated at least 10 forged passports for Arab and western countries. The bust also resulted in the confiscation of "maps, pictures and lists of names for targets of terror attacks in Lebanon, the Arab world and Europe," the source added
He said the bust was a "major catch. We have foiled a series of terrorist attacks that would have claimed thousands of lives if carried out," the source told Naharnet. The suspect's "hotel suite" had been under surveillance for a while, the source said.
He said Fatah al-Islam terrorists arrested by police in the northern town of Tripoli "told investigators about the suspect." Police have arrested at least 90 people suspected of affiliation with the Fatah al-Islam terror network that is based in north Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared.