"A Lebanese brainwashed the perpetrators of the Boston bombings." … "A Lebanese bombed the Boston Marathon via YouTube." … "Sheikh Fayez bombs Boston from Australia." These are some of the headlines published by Lebanese and Arab news sites after it was discovered that excerpts of speeches from a Sunni jihadist preacher of Lebanese-Australian origin were found on the YouTube account belonging to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects in last Monday's [April 15] Boston Marathon bombing. 

According to these excerpts, this jihadist sheikh is named Feiz Mohammad. Preliminary information indicates that Mohammad was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1975, and is the son of two Lebanese citizens who emigrated from Dinniyeh, an area located near Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. 

According to unconfirmed press reports, Mohammad was forced to leave Sydney in 2005, and returned to his parent's hometown in Dinniyeh. This came after Australian authorities grew annoyed by the sheikh, given his inflammatory fatwas and statements, which they considered to be inciting collective violence and hatred.

It is worth noting that, since 1999, the area of Dinniyeh has suffered from many disturbances and security tensions as a result of jihadist terrorist groups that have penetrated its rugged mountain terrain. They have created training camps and safe havens, which they use to move about in order to carry out terrorist operations.