Report: Al-Nusra Trainer Returns to Ain el-Hilweh
Two terrorists have returned from fighting in Syria and entered the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Monday.
The daily quoted security officials as saying that Mohammed al-Aarifi, who hails from the southern city of Sidon but for long lived in Ain el-Hilweh, had been training al-Nusra Front fighters in Syria.
He had also a role in luring fighters from Lebanon and Palestinian refugee camps into the Syrian region of Qalamun on the Lebanese border.
But after the area fell to Syrian troops, al-Aarifi headed to Aleppo and his first wife and children returned to Ain el-Hilweh.
His second wife and children did the same and he followed them along with another of his daughters to the camp, said the officials.
Mohammed al-Doukhi, who is known as Khardaq and is a Fatah al-Islam member, also returned to Ain el-Hilweh after fighting in Syria.
The security sources said the two terrorists entered the camp along with an al-Nusra Front official named Abou Mohammed al-Shishani.
The camp is long known for harboring terrorists and suspects wanted by the Lebanese authorities.
Under a long-standing agreement, Lebanese security forces do not enter the Palestinian camps.
Lebanese authorities have recently stated that Islamist fugitive Shadi al-Mawlawi also sought refuge in Ain el-Hilweh.
They said al-Mawlawi joined Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and Fadel Shaker.
Al-Asir denied, however, via twitter last week that he was at Ain el-Hilweh.
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