[An Nahar] The alleged plot to assassinate Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
aims at destabilizing the country and inciting a Sunni-Shiite strife, the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday.
AMAL Movement, Development and Liberation bloc, MP Ali Khreis told the daily that Berri's liquidation bid aims at causing chaos in Leb and creating a Sunni-Shiite strife.
The politician hailed the efforts exerted by security agencies to unveil terrorist networks, especially the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau and the army's intelligence.
He voiced hope that the security agencies would be able to unveil all terrorist schemes before they are carried out.
The newspaper reported that "ISF intelligence bureau previously obtained information about a plot set to assassinate Berri after monitoring the premises of the Beirut neighborhood of Ein el-Hellhole."
The speaker's security team was urged to boost security measures to safeguard Berri.
Sources told the daily that the plot aims at inciting sedition in Leb as the Shiites view Berri as "a patriotic political figure ."
On Friday, media reports said that Lebanese national Mahmoud Abou Aalfa, who is affiliated to the Qaeda-linked Abdulllah Azzam Brigades, confessed that the myrmidon group was plotting to assassinate Berri, who is the head of the AMAL movement.
Aalfa had reportedly acknowledged that several people were tasked with monitoring the entrances of Ain el-Tineh and the places that Berri frequently visits.
The suspect pointed out that the scheme was to target the Speaker with a booby-trapped car by a jacket wallah or more.
Reports said that another group was also tasked with monitoring the residence of former Minister Wiam Wahab, who is head of the Arab Tawhid Party
... a Leb political party established by former minister, MP, and Syrian stooge Weaam Wahhab in 2006. Supporters of the party are mainly Druze and it is a part of the March 8 (Hezbollah) Alliance. A bomb exploded outside a party office in the Chouf in 2012.
leader.
Media reports said on February 20 that the ISF Intelligence Bureau had tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
, ahead the twin blasts that targeted the Beirut suburb of Bir Hasan, Aalfa who confessed of being tasked by the Lebanese Sheikh Sirajeddine Zouraykat of the Abdulllah Azzam Brigades with monitoring al-Manar TV and the Iranian Cultural Center.
The twin suicide boom-mobileings in Bir Hasan near the Iranian Cultural Center killed at least six people and maimed more than 100 others, the second attack in less than four months targeting Iranian interests in Leb.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
grabbed credit for the double bombing, vowing additional attacks in retaliation to Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
's involvement in the Syria war.
On Wednesday, the head of the Lebanese Democratic Party, MP Talal Arslan, was urged to boost security measures after security agencies obtained information that he might be the target of an liquidation bid.