Lebanon fights back against terrorists
Despite the ongoing terrorist attacks in Lebanon, the country’s authorities have made significant arrests in their war against terror.
In a scene fast becoming familiar, a suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday in a van headed to Beirut’s Shiite majority southern suburbs wounding six. The war between the Sunni terrorist groups targeting civilians in Lebanon and Lebanese intelligence seems equalized at this point. After eight bombings in Lebanon, including five suicide attacks, it seems clear that Lebanese intelligence has made several achievements in the war against terror.
Official sources have confirmed to Al-Monitor that there are two other detainees under interrogation (whose identities have not been revealed yet), and anti-terror efforts are ongoing. Below is a summary of recent achievements covered in the local media:
Arrest of the emir of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, Saudi national Majid al-Majid
On Jan. 1, the Lebanese army announced it had arrested one of the most famous terrorists in the region. Majid was made emir of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades in June 2012, after his predecessor Saleh al-Qarawi was injured by a bomb blast. Qarawi was on the US list of international terrorists as the founder of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades in 2004 and as al-Qaeda’s arm in Iraq, the Levant and the Middle East in general. Majid’s Abdullah Azzam Brigades had claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings that targeted the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Nov. 19, 2013.
