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'Dangerous Terror Cell' Busted in Tripoli as 5 Suspects Held in Akkar, Bekaa

A “dangerous terrorist cell” was arrested Thursday in the northern city of Tripoli, Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported.

“The army's Strike Force has managed to capture a group of individuals in the Tripoli area of al-Dam wal Farz after a surveillance operations,” VDL said.

“A patrol coming from Beirut had detected the five-member group and chased their small van,” the radio station added.

It said the group was eventually apprehended “simultaneously with the arrest of two suspects in the Akkar town of Mashta Hassan.”

State-run National News Agency said an army force raided several houses in Mashta Hassan and arrested Mazen K. and Samer K. “on suspicion of belonging to militant groups.”

According to VDL, the group is accused of “communicating with a terror group operating outside Lebanon and facilitating its activities inside Lebanon.”

Separately, the State Security directorate arrested the Syrians Khaled Amer and Ahmed al-Kattoun in the northeastern border area of Masharii al-Qaa on charges of “belonging to a militant group and taking part in the Qalamoun and Arsal battles.”

Both men are also Lebanese citizens according to NNA.

Meanwhile, a patrol from the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch arrested another Syrian outside the district building in the Bekaa town of Hermel “on suspicion of belonging to terrorist groups.”

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