Azzam Brigades plans attacks, assassinations: report
BEIRUT: The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Abdullah Azzam Brigades is reportedly planning attacks across Lebanon as well as for the assassination of political or non-political figures, according to local newspaper As-Safir Friday.
The report, according to information made available to security and military agencies, said groups of Abdullah Azzam Brigades were preparing to carry out bomb attacks and firing rockets on a Lebanese city and its surrounding and also on a main highway linking a Lebanese region with the capital Beirut.
This has prompted authorities to take measures, including informing a number of political and non-political figures about the need to take extreme caution and restrict their movements, a well-informed security source told As-Safir.
The report said a Syrian national identified only by his initials F.Sh. has rigged three cars with explosives: a silver Kia, a navy blue Nissan Maxima and a BMW X5.
As-Safir said the source would not confirm or deny information about a Hyundai 4WD that had been rigged in one of the northern Bekaa Valley towns for terrorism purposes.
The source, however, pointed out that the intensive security measures taken by the military Thursday has aborted a terrorist attack against the Lebanese Army in the outskirts of the northeastern Bekaa town of Arsal after the discovery of a bomb planted on the road routinely patrolled by the Army.
The bomb in Ras al-Sarj weighed 25 kilograms, the source said, adding that the military was searching for similar bombs likely planted by terrorist groups in the area.
The source said security forces were also hunting for suicide-bombers, most of them non-Lebanese.
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The report, according to information made available to security and military agencies, said groups of Abdullah Azzam Brigades were preparing to carry out bomb attacks and firing rockets on a Lebanese city and its surrounding and also on a main highway linking a Lebanese region with the capital Beirut.
This has prompted authorities to take measures, including informing a number of political and non-political figures about the need to take extreme caution and restrict their movements, a well-informed security source told As-Safir.
The report said a Syrian national identified only by his initials F.Sh. has rigged three cars with explosives: a silver Kia, a navy blue Nissan Maxima and a BMW X5.
As-Safir said the source would not confirm or deny information about a Hyundai 4WD that had been rigged in one of the northern Bekaa Valley towns for terrorism purposes.
The source, however, pointed out that the intensive security measures taken by the military Thursday has aborted a terrorist attack against the Lebanese Army in the outskirts of the northeastern Bekaa town of Arsal after the discovery of a bomb planted on the road routinely patrolled by the Army.
The bomb in Ras al-Sarj weighed 25 kilograms, the source said, adding that the military was searching for similar bombs likely planted by terrorist groups in the area.
The source said security forces were also hunting for suicide-bombers, most of them non-Lebanese.
- See more at: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Feb-13/287300-azzam-brigades-plans-attacks-assassinations-report.ashx#sthash.CcZlZmmE.dpuf
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