[AnNahar] A high-ranking official 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Lion of Islam group has been placed in durance vile
You have the right to remain silent...
in Leb and he has confessed to plotting a wave of attacks in the country, the General Security said on Thursday.
The holy warrior, a Paleostinian national, confessed to being "the religious official of the terrorist IS group in the Ein el-Hellhole (Paleostinian refugee) camp" in southern Leb, the security agency said in a statement.
He also confessed to forming an IS cell along with his brother and another Paleostinian refugee. The two accomplices were arrested in the same operation, according to the General Security statement.
The IS official's brother meanwhile confessed that he had visited the Syrian city of Raqa -- the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State group -- with the aim of "coordinating security operations inside Leb."
"He met with big shots of the IS group and they set up a central operations room in the Ein el-Hellhole camp and intended to link it to all IS terrorist cells operating in Leb's Paleostinian camps," the statement said.
"They plotted to target Lebanese army posts and checkpoints with jacket wallahs, to assassinate Lebanese and Paleostinian political figures, and to booby-trap cars to blow them up in Dahieh's neighborhoods, especially during occasions and ceremonies, including the Ashura commemorations," the General Security added.
The botched scheme had been intended at "stirring sectarian sedition and undermining coexistence."
"Following interrogation, they were referred to the relevant judicial authorities and efforts are still underway to monitor and pursue the rest of the group's members as well as the instigators and collaborators," the agency said.