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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
General Security Thwarts Bombing Plot in Beirut
2015-06-28
[AnNahar] Security forces thwarted a plot to bomb an area in Beirut at the order of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, reported Voice of Leb radio (93.3) on Saturday.

It said that two Lebanese suspects were tasked by the IS in Syria's al-Qalamoun region to carry out the attack.

The suspects were incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
in May by the General Security and they have been transferred to the Military General Prosecution.

No further details were disclosed.

Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
targets in Leb have frequently been the subject of terrorist attacks over the party's involvement in the fighting in Syria alongside the country's ruling regime.

The army and security forces have since been cracking down on various Lebanese and non-Lebanese suspects throughout the country, detaining several on terrorism charges.
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