Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade Warns Head of Cyber Crime Bureau: We Will Inflame Lebanon
The obscure group known as the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade threatened on Sunday to target Maj. Suzan al-Hajj, chief of the Internal Security Forces' Cyber Crime and Intellectual Property Protection bureau.
The shadowy group urged al-Hajj in a tweet using a new account on Twitter to reconsider her tactics and “stop meddling with fire.”
“Not you nor your cyber crimes (office) are capable of locating us and inflicting harm to us,” the group's emir Saifullah al-Shayyah said in a tweet, advising al-Hajj to “take care of her family and to sit in the company of women like her instead.”
He warned that the agents of the brigade will turn the “Emirate of Lebanon into a rubble of iron and fire in a matter of hours if any of our members were harmed by the Crusader (security) agencies.”
The tweets come in light of a statement by al-Hajj that “those behind the previous account of the so-called the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade were identified.”
Her announcement comes two days after the account on Twitter was deactivated.
“Investigations identified the people running the account and their locations... They will be apprehended soon,” al-Hajj said.
Earlier in July, the cyber crimes bureau announced that the Twitter account of the vague Brigade is being probed.
According to the bureau, two fake names have operated the account and they are Omar al-Shami, a former Syrian inmate who died in the Adra prison in the neighboring country, and Saifullah al-Shayyah, who does no exist.
Shayyah in his tweets on Sunday also warned Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq and “the Crusader (security) agencies.”
“We halted our jihadist operations due to thorough and careful planning.”
Mashnouq had revealed recently that tweets by the so-called “Free Sunnis Brigade” were in fact made by a foreign intelligence agency.
However, he did not disclose further details on the matter.
But the shadowy brigade was quick to hit back, telling Mashnouq that he will not be able to prevent the group's "jihadist operations."
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