Photo Circulated by Army Belongs to Syrian Aide of Naim Abbas
A photograph circulated by the Lebanese Army on Monday has turned out to belong to a Syrian man who was an assistant to detained Qaida-linked militant Naim Abbas.
“The picture is that of Syrian national Fares Hussein al-Hmoud, aka Fadi, who was an executive assistant to the detainee Naim Abbas,” LBCI television said.
“He is 20 years old and very dangerous,” LBCI added.
The army had circulated the man's photo on Monday, asking “anyone who recognizes him to call the Army Command's operations center on the number 1701 or to inform the nearest military post or to use the LAF Shield mobile phone app.”
The development comes after the army defused a booby-trapped car Sunday in the outskirts of the Baalbek town of Ham. The vehicle which infiltrated Lebanon from Syria contained around 240 kilos of explosives, 10 kilos of extremely flammable material and two 122 mm artillery shells.
On Wednesday, the army announced the arrest of top militant Naim Abbas, one of the leaders of the Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades. Following his interrogation, he told the army about a car rigged with more than 100 kilos of explosives which was dismantled in Beirut's Corniche al-Mazraa district.
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