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Report: French-Arab Arrested during Hamra Raid
2014-06-23
[AnNahar] Investigations are ongoing with three of the suspects placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
during a security raid in the Hamra neighborhood in Beirut on Friday, reported the daily al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
on Sunday.

It said that one of the suspects is French national with Arab origins.
Jean-Abdul Meauhammed is his name...
He is believed to have played a central role in a terrorist network, the name of which was not revealed.
Explosifs sont his game.
It also remains to be seen whether this network is behind Friday's Dahr al-Bydar bombing.
"Gentilhommes, we mus' bomb le Dahr al-Bydar ajourd'hui!"
"I'm busy ajourd'hui. How about demain?"

The investigations have so far discovered the network and that the French-Arab is its leader.
"Le réseau de la terreur c'est moi!"
Al-Mustaqbal reported that contacts are ongoing between Lebanese and French authorities for further details on his identity.

The Hamra area in Beirut was the scene of a major crackdown over a suspected terror plot on Friday, with security forces arresting 102 people at a number of hotels, among whom only 17 remain in jug.

"These terrorist groups were plotting to carry out a major terrorist act against a ceremony that was scheduled to be held before noon at the UNESCO Palace" in Beirut, reported the National News Agency.

Earlier on Friday, AMAL Movement decided to postpone a conference at the UNESCO Palace after receiving security warnings and following contacts with Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq. Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
was supposed to attend the conference.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  lingua franca I guess you can say that here.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-23 21:05  

#4  I understand French used to be a sort of lingua franca in many parts of the world.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-06-23 18:03  

#3  Well maybe he picked up snatches of it in the belly of an air force Neptune or some such.

My understanding, such as it is, is that the proprietor of this blog studied the classics, Vietnamese and Russian. But then again, maybe he traveled thru Rhode Island a lot, it's hard to know, a mystery. Only Atomic Conspiracy knows for sure, and he ain't talking.

Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-23 15:53  

#2  But of course, Shipman! All those lovely Francophone countries in sub-Saharan Africa, not to mention in the Maghreb -- Morocco and Algeria and all -- and then of course there's Lebanon. Mr. Wife found his high school French a lifesaver in Morocco, where the Arabic is as different from what he'd learnt in Cairo and Jeddah as Cantonese is from Mandarin.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-06-23 14:01  

#1  I didn't realize French was one of the classic intelligence languages. I learn more and more.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-23 08:26  

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