Security Sources and Aley University Clarify Bomb Scare
Two gasoline bottles attached to firecrackers were found near the National University in the Mount Lebanon town of Aley, a security source told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) on Sunday.
The report came after the National News Agency said two large juice bottles were filled with gasoline and attached to a detonator, leading to a bomb scare.
But the security source told VDL that the military expert did not find any plot to carry out a bombing when he inspected the materials.
The university that is owned by MP Akram Shehayyeb, a member of Walid Jumblat’s National Struggle Front bloc, also denied in a statement that an explosive was found near the institution.
“What was found was less than an explosive,” it said in a vague statement.
The “university has a long history of education and coexistence and keeps itself at a distance from politics,” it said.
The statement added that the institution does not differentiate between students from different affiliations.
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