[An Nahar] A security document is making the rounds that a Syrian jacket wallah driving an explosives-laden Kia is plotting to target a high-ranking personality 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...
or in the capital Beirut.
The document claims that the bomber identified as Abou al-Adnan is a member of the Khaled Ibn al-Walid al-Jabha al-Islamiya Brigades.
The Kia is champagne colored, it says.
According to the same document, gunnies are plotting to detonate a booby-trapped black Honda near the residence of the well-known political personality in Tripoli.
The last official to be killed in a string of liquidations that have rocked Leb in the past years was ex-Finance Minister Mohammed Shatah, who was also al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
movement leader Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
's advisor.
Shatah, 62, died in a boom-mobile blast in downtown Beirut on December 27.