ID of Hermel Suicide Bomber 'Mere Joke' as Alleged Suspect Denies Reports

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An alleged suspect of the suicide bombing that targeted Hermel over the weekend denied media reports that accused him, considering it a “joke.”

“I have no links to the bombing in Hermel. It was a joke by a guy and without my prior knowledge,” he told LBCI.

Ahmed Abdul Karim, who was suspected of carrying out the suicide bombing that targeted a petrol station in Hermel, said a guy informed media outlets that he carried out the attack showing them his military identification card.

A military identification paper of Abdul Karim went viral over social media early on Monday.

Fnaideq municipal chief Khaldoun Taleb also denied the alleged suicide bomber hails from the northern village in district of Akkar, offering his condolences to the families of the victims.

The municipal chief deemed media reports concerning the name of the suicide bomber as false as no one in the records of the town hold the circulated names.

Media reports said that the suicide bomber hails from the town of Fnaideq.

On Saturday, a suicide bombing hit the area anew after a suicide bomber set explosives inside a Grand Cherokee inside a petrol station.

The Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon claimed the attack on Twitter, saying it was a suicide bombing in response to Hizbullah's involvement in Syria.

It was the seventh attack to target Hizbullah in Lebanon since mid-2013, when the group sent men to Syria to fight alongside President Bashar Assad's troops against mainly Sunni rebel groups.

Taleb stressed on the historical ties between Fnaideq and the northeastern town of Hermel, condemning the attack that targeted the town.

The municipal chief said that the “residents of Fnaideq denounce such terrorist acts and those who carry them out.”

He offered his condolences to the families of the victims, considering that “what targeted Hermel targets all Lebanon.”

Comments 17
Thumb geha 03 February 2014, 09:45

desperate attempts from hizbushaitan and aoun to pin this on Lebanese sunnis!

(for those who want to deny any of the above sentence, please check fpm and hizbushaitan social sites first, then if you want to say something, you are my guest, you sectarian filth)

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 February 2014, 13:20

yea, they really need to "desperately pin it" because there were never any suicide bombers from tripoli and akkar... idiot.

Thumb geha 03 February 2014, 13:38

:) you are a certified idiot by your admission and all the people on tis site concur about that fact. so...
إن تتني مذمة من ناقص فهي السهادة أنني كامل...

Thumb Kalzyturks 03 February 2014, 09:54

Operation flag fall gone wrong!

Thumb MaddyBaddy 03 February 2014, 12:51

False Flag for sure :D Lebanon has more of those then actual wars

Thumb liberty 03 February 2014, 14:42

rofl @ peacelover

Thumb ice-man 03 February 2014, 09:59

Did you watch the Superbowl last night?

Thumb ice-man 03 February 2014, 11:00

@Southern: Please, refrain from insulting your fellow posters simply because they don't share your point of view. Debate without insults, please!

Missing samy2 03 February 2014, 11:43

i would say OTV

Thumb ice-man 03 February 2014, 13:03

On The Verge (OTV)

Missing imagine_1979 03 February 2014, 12:48

U know southern in irak there were patriot fighting against US invasion and jihadist fanatics (a lot of them transited through syria under the vigilant eyes of syrian regime...) so not all fighters are the same..
I'm reminding u of this bc u tend to put fsa under the takfiri flag..
Now bravo again for trying to make everyone against assad look like fanatic takfiri (despite that many fanatics are fighting side by side with this regime aka shiite millicia from irak...)
So now really go have some chupachups... U look tense...

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 February 2014, 13:23

the events in the last 3 years proved at least one thing, the syrian regime does not and cannot control all its borders. nobody can control thousands of kilometers of borders in mountainous and deserter areas, not even the US/Mexico border can be airtight.

so if any qaeda elements passed by syria to go to iraq, it doesnt prove anything.

Thumb ice-man 03 February 2014, 13:38

Dear Mowaten: I noticed that you tend to jump from one poster to another picking' on their comments and attempting to answer them. Being your best friend on this forum, I must advise you this kinda behavior might mistakenly give the impression to those who really don't know you that you are a paid poster promoting a certain biased point of view. I know this is not true, but please take note of it.

Missing imagine_1979 03 February 2014, 14:27

Mowaten so u are telling me that during assad rule (before the syrian revoution or insurection or whatever u wanna call it syrian regime had his borders wide open and couldnot regulate flow of qaida fighter that was passing threw syria to irak... Really man, really???... Assad never used those giys and never sent any of tbem to irak.. Umm, ok if that's the level of the conversation fine..
U are right, assad is a poor and verry civilised leader , no link what so ever to fanatics (chaker el abssi , hachem minkara..those were just on vacation as well as many others..syrian people just got nut, fanatics, takfiri and decided to bombe their own villages with scuds andexplosive barrels (even gas..)
Bravo man, really.. Not brainwashed at all...
By the way i was to think that a non negligeable number of mexican were let to enter for their labor but u must be right since US cannot control their border and is invaded by takfiri/zuonist/ksa.. Then of course how could assad?..

Missing peace 03 February 2014, 14:02

hezbi s just got what they deserve....

Missing peace 03 February 2014, 23:19

those innocents were killed because of hezbi involvement in syria disobeying their own state!
hezbis are the first to blame for these killings of innocents but for them i guess it is just collateral damage...

Thumb amatoury114 03 February 2014, 14:58

@ the boar..........now i got it.. you are a cop hence the fixation on doughnut..it all makes sense mr officer of the law