Report: Soldiers Ordered to Search Suspicious Women at Checkpoints
Terrorists are now resorting to women to carry explosives used in suicide and car bombings but the Lebanese army leadership has given orders to search them, security sources said Friday.
The sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper that the army discovered a new tactic used by extremists by relying on women to transport explosives material.
Such a scenario led to a decision to search suspicious females, particularly at checkpoints in sensitive security areas such as Palestinian refugee camps, which many of them harbor extremists.
Military sources also said that the army has formed an operations room to follow-up the sensitive security situation by taking precautionary measures to thwart suicide bombings.
Al-Joumhouria said Thursday that the army and security forces are implementing a security plan in the South after a rise in the rate of terrorist bombings targeting Shiite areas and amid reports that the supporters of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and other extremists would carry out attacks in southern cities and towns.
Al-Asir is believed to be hiding in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh in Sidon.
A series of deadly bombings have targeted Shiite districts of Beirut's southern suburbs and the eastern Bekaa valley in recent months. Hizbullah has a strong presence in the districts, and the attacks are believed to be in retaliation for the Shiite group's armed intervention in Syria in support of President Bashar Assad against the majority Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.
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