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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Islamist Duo Link between Nusra Front, Suicide Bombers
2015-01-17
[AnNahar]. Fugitives Ousama Mansour and Shadi al-Mawlawi are reportedly recruiting youth to join al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front by running an operation cell at the southern Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole.

Security information obtained by al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday reported that the two dangerous suspects are residing at the refugee camp.

The daily said that Mawlawi is the link between the emir of al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front in Qalamoun, Abou Malik al-Talli, and the recruited jacket wallahs.

Mawlawi and Mansour are recruiting suicide bombers to attack certain areas in Leb and carry out al-Nusra Front's scheme in Leb, the daily added.

The two runaways have been charged in absentia with belonging to an armed terrorist group in order to stage terrorist acts.

On Thursday, the army announced the arrest of three men who were plotting to carry out terrorist operations against army posts and residential neighborhoods, noting that investigations revealed they were affiliated with the group led by Mansour and Mawlawi.

Reports also said that the executors of Saturday's twin suicide kaboom in the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen 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...
, Taha al-Khayyal and Bilal al-Meraayan, are linked to al-Nusra Front.

Al-Nusra Front claimed the attack on a crowded cafe in the Alawite region that killed nine people and maimed 37 others.

Khayal and Meraayan had reportedly disappeared when Mawlawi and Mansour went into hiding following the deadly gunbattles with the Lebanese army in and around Tripoli in October.
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