Report: Army Intelligence Tracking Down Dangerous Terrorist Cell
The Lebanese Army Intelligence is currently pursuing a highly dangerous terrorist cell on Lebanese territories, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday.
A security source told the newspaper that the extremist network will be revealed soon.
According to the report, the suspects are highly wanted as they threat the civil peace in Lebanon and are working based on foreign agendas in coordination with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The report added that the network is comprised of Palestinians and Syrians that belong to ISIL and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades.
On Thursday, the army said that a Palestinian suspect who was killed during a clash in the eastern Bekaa Valley was a member of an al-Qaida-linked group.
Ibrahim Abdul Mohti Abou Maaileq, known as Abi Jaafar, succumbed to his wounds in hospital on Wednesday, the army said.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings that have targeted the Iranian Embassy in Beirut's southern suburbs in November.
Its leader, Majed al-Majed, was arrested by the army last month and said he later died at a military hospital in Beirut from a chronic illness.
The al-Qaida-affiliated ISIL had also claimed credit for the deadly bombing in the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik earlier in January.
The group had vowed further attacks against Hizbullah in Lebanon.
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