"As part of the monitoring of the terrorist groups' activities and the pursuit of their sleeper cells, the General Security tossed in the slammer
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
Lebanese national Y. D. over intelligence information that he belongs to a terrorist group and was plotting to stage an act of sabotage," it said in a statement.
"During interrogation, he confessed to belonging to the terrorist 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 group and to plotting a bombing with a boom jacket," it added.
He was referred to the relevant judicial authorities upon the end of interrogation.
Dozens of suspects -- including would-be jacket wallahs -- were arrested and several boom jackets were seized in recent days as security forces launched massive nationwide raids.
The crackdown comes in the wake of deadly suicide kaboom
s in the Beirut southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh that killed 43 people and maimed around 240 others.The attack, among the worst in years, was claimed by the jihadist 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....
group.