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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.
A forensic inspector collects evidence at the site of the two suicide bombings that occurred on Tuesday near Iran's embassy compound in Beirut November 20, 2013. Two suicide bombings rocked Iran's embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attache and hurling bodies and burning wreckage across a debris-strewn street. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX15LJV

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:

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