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| Duroy Hotel Terrorists Reportedly Monitored by General Security for a Week |
| 2014-06-27 |
| [AnNahar] The General Security Directorate reportedly began monitoring the terrorist group that was busted in Duroy Hotel in Beirut's Raouche area a week before raiding it. According to As Safir newspaper published on Thursday, the General Security investigations proved the group had links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL). The network was allegedly ordered to carry out a double suicide kaboom in a prominent restaurant in Beirut and a Hotel when people would be watching a world cup game and the two place would be crowded. On Wednesday afternoon, a Saudi man went kaboom!in Hotel Duroy as security forces stormed his room, killing himself and wounding several others. An accomplice of the jacket wallah who was also in the room survived the blast but was severely injured. A third person is on the run. As Safir daily reported that the General Security's Elite Force raid was directly supervised by the directorate's chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim. A string of security incidents over the past week has rattled Leb, and Beirut in particular, after what had been a calm and stable stretch of several months. The police raid followed the arrest last Friday in a hotel in the nearby Hamra district of the capital of a Frenchie of Comoran origin on suspicion of plotting to carry out suicide kabooms in Leb on behalf of the jihadist ISIL group. That is the same group that has spearheaded the offensive by Sunni Arab forces of Evil that has swept up a big swathe of northern and north-central Iraq over the past two weeks and also made gains in neighboring Syria. On Monday, a suicide bomber went kaboom!near a checkpoint outside a cafe just after midnight in the Tayyouneh area. The bombing killed one person and maimed 20. Another bombing in eastern Leb last week killed a police officer and maimed several others. Syria's civil war has spilled into neighboring Leb on numerous occasions and inflamed sectarian tensions. A series of boom-mobiles have struck Shiite areas across Leb, killing dozens of people. The operation also came amid mounting regional tensions over the events unfolding in Iraq. |
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