Army Circulates Photo of Third 'Dangerous Fugitive' this Week

The army on Saturday circulated the photo of a man it described as a “dangerous fugitive,” calling on whoever recognizes him to report to the military institution.

“We urge anyone who recognizes the dangerous fugitive to call the Army Command's operations center on 1701 or to report by using the military institution's smart phone application LAF Shield,” the army said in a communique.

Later in the evening, LBCI television said the circulated photo probably belongs to the second suicide bomber in Beirut's Bir Hassan explosion that took place on Wednesday.

"It was found partially deformed on the scene of the blasts," it added.

On Wednesday, the army also made public a picture of a “dangerous fugitive” which turned out to belong to Palestinian Nidal al-Mghayyar.

Al-Mghayyar is one of the suicide bombers behind the latest deadly attack on the Beirut neighborhood of Bir Hassan.

The identity of the man in the picture was revealed after the father of al-Moghayar contacted the army intelligence as he realized the photo is that of his son.

Meanwhile, another photograph circulated by the Lebanese Army on Monday turned out to belong to Syrian national Fares Hussein al-Hmoud, who was an assistant to detained Qaida-linked militant Naim Abbas.

Abbas, a top militant and one of the leaders of the Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades was arrested last week and he confessed during his interrogation about a car rigged with more than 100 kilos of explosives which was dismantled in Beirut's Corniche al-Mazraa district.