Security Document: Plot to Assassinate Politician in Tripoli or Beirut
A security document is making the rounds that a Syrian suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden Kia is plotting to target a high-ranking personality in the northern city of Tripoli or in the capital Beirut.
The document claims that the bomber identified as Abou al-Adnan is a member of the Khaled Ibn al-Walid al-Jabha al-Islamiya Brigades.
The Kia is champagne colored, it says.
According to the same document, militants are plotting to detonate a booby-trapped black Honda near the residence of the well-known political personality in Tripoli.
The last official to be killed in a string of assassinations that have rocked Lebanon in the past years was ex-Finance Minister Mohammed Shatah, who was also al-Mustaqbal movement leader Saad Hariri's advisor.
Shatah, 62, died in a car bomb blast in downtown Beirut on December 27.
Photo courtesy of Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).
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