Army Command: Atrash Confesses to Transporting Explosives-Laden Cars to Beirut
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Army Command announced on Thursday that detained cleric Sheikh Omar al-Atrash had confessed during investigations to taking part in plans to carry out car bomb attacks in Lebanon.
It said in a statement that he confessed to transporting explosives-laden cars to Beirut.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr later charged Atrash and 12 Lebanese and Syrian suspects with belonging to al-Qaida and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades and of committing terrorist acts.
Atrash confessed that he was transporting the booby-trapped vehicles to a Syrian national called Abou Khaled who in turn was planning to hand them to a terrorist called Naim Abbas in cooperation with a man identified as Omar Saleh.
The cleric also transported explosive belts, hand grenades, and different ammunition.
In addition, he transported in one of the vehicles two suicide bombers equipped with explosive belts.
The bombers were killed at the Ouwwali and Majdelyoun army checkpoints on undisclosed dates.
Atrash confessed that he had transported suicide bombers from different Arab nationalities to Syria.
They were handed over to the Nusra Front group in Syria, said the Army Command statement.
Moreover, the cleric transported from Syria four rockets that were fired from al-Hosh region towards Israel on August 22, 2013.
He had received four new rockets, from a man called Ahmed Taha, a few days before his arrest.
The Army Intelligence added that further investigations will be held with Atrash in order to uncover all other operations that the group he belongs to had carried out.
The cleric was arrested last week.
Media reports had linked him to car bombings that had taken place in recent months in Dahieh, Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon -- believed to be the local branch of Syria's Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist rebel movement – had recently warned that attacks on Hizbullah-controlled areas will continue until Lebanon releases Sunni Islamist prisoners and the party withdraws from Syria.
Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon warned Sunnis against "approaching or residing in or near (Hizbullah's) bases, and (to) avoid gathering around its meeting points."
The war in Syria has inflamed sectarian tensions in Lebanon, with Hizbullah backing President Bashar Assad's regime and many Sunnis supporting the rebellion against him.
30 January 2014, 15:42
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+1 army and government... now go get eid. transporting weapons and terrorists should carry a death sentence.
30 January 2014, 18:41
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@beirutbastard00,
You are right as you stated that and I quote, "transporting weapons and terrorists should carry a death sentence." Unquote.
Now how about the culture that raise, feed and throw a farewell parties to, a well documented, terrorists every day: from September 11 2001 to Sochi Russia last week?
30 January 2014, 20:35
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I'm with you roar. Assir as well. Smaha too. And his Ba'ath handlers. No? Or are we going to defend them some more because they are the "lesser" of two evils?
30 January 2014, 15:50
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they just stated all their names so that they will run away.. thats called smart intelligence
30 January 2014, 16:11
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Hassan Nasrallah is hiding, working in the shadows and playing war games. People keep forgetting he's a "cleric"... and blasphemy to Islam usurping the name of Sayyed...
I hope all these clerics, behind any armed gang, promoting war and hatred will be eliminated. They are clerics of hell using gods name to cover for their crimes, murders and wars...
30 January 2014, 16:39
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omar atrash was also behind the rweiss blast. like pokemons, catching them one by one :)
30 January 2014, 16:50
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any terrorist should burn in hell.
I welcome his arrest.
we still need closure on the samaha, eid cases, and at least capture one of those who bommbed m14 officials.
one sided justice is not justice. All terrorist should rot in hell.
30 January 2014, 17:26
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What eid case geha? The ISF tried to get their dirty hands on him, but he got into Syria in time, so if you want eid, you are welcome to join your salafi brothers crossing the borders.
31 January 2014, 11:36
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only the isf didnt catch any takfiri, it's only the army... weird innit?
30 January 2014, 17:06
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hahaha glad you liked it :)
kind of a big slap in the face of Futuristas, showing that even a Jew whose parents died in nazi concentration camps is less zionist than them.
anyone wondering what we're talking about, here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe65-nF3FQ
30 January 2014, 17:27
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There is no difference between Nassrallah and this Sheikh. Same means same methodology same end. Both criminals and murderers.
30 January 2014, 17:30
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Another singer turned lunatic! I cannot get enough of his singing and playing the oud, especially his song: laktob 3a wra2 el shagar safar 7abibi whagar. Ooops, that was another Atrash? I hope this Atrash does not become an Akhras so he can continue to sing like a robin to the moukhabarat and reveal the level of Sanni lunacy these cheikhs of fitna have reached. takbir
30 January 2014, 17:32
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@ Roar: I never said Geagea should be forgiven. He should pay for his crimes along with all other politicians you support
@FT: The only Israeli partners in Lebanon is Hezbollah protecting them from Palestinian threat
@Southern : Hassan is definitely not a Sayyed. And no Good and no "civil peace" can come from a party of terrorists armed to the teeth and involved in all sorts of crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to conducting international terrorism to renting soldiers to fight other wars.
To all of you : You are the idiots responsible for the collapse of the former republic of Lebanon and establishment of Iran sur Mer Mediterranee !
30 January 2014, 18:29
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How about you watch the "Hashish Connection" instead of smoking it and learn a thing or two about what terrorist gangs like Hezbollah are really protecting... and this was during the war days... now its even worst!
30 January 2014, 19:00
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@Southern : Coming from you, a follower of Hassan Nasrallah and Bashar el Assad with idols such as these sensationalist idiots ? I might agree with some points about the great imperialistic plans of Israel / US... i'm the first one to reject them. But I would never accept the Iranian / Hezbollah alternative which is much worst !
Again, if you base your point of view on these imbeciles (Norman / George), it would be easier to prove there is extraterrestrial intelligence than find intelligence in your little heads!
The world is much more complex than what they depict and Iran / Hezbollah is part of the same game ! You're only fools who are caught into the same trap for taking sides. They are two sides of the same coin and whichever you support, you are the looser !
30 January 2014, 18:15
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Dear president Assad,
Why is FSA not listed on the Syrian Terror List?
Egypt listed a "more-moderate" Muslim brotherhood on the terror list.
30 January 2014, 23:42
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The MB are Iran's partners since 1979..... Google it. That's why Morsi freed hizballa terrorists detained in Egypt.
30 January 2014, 20:33
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Hey legit. Have you seen Iranian mullahs? Just as freaky. This guy deserves to be tried for treason. But he is not the only one in Lebanon that needs to be euthanized.
30 January 2014, 20:37
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If you count both Sunni and Shia. And the sprinkle of Christians. It would be easier to just build a wall around Lebanon than build a crap load of prisons to hold them.
30 January 2014, 20:53
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lol blind indeed, neither in the methodology nor the end is there the slightest similarity.
30 January 2014, 21:21
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'that's because you're a blind idiot.'
that's because he's not a conditioned khomeynist puppy, unlike u...
