DNA Confirms Asoun Body is Akkoumi's as Report Says Ahmed Miqati 'Communicated with al-Daher'

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DNA tests have confirmed that the scorched body at the raided Dinniyeh apartment is that of defected soldier Abdul Qader al-Akkoumi, the army announced on Friday, as preliminary investigations revealed that the arrested dangerous militant Ahmed Salim Miqati had been “communicating” with al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Khaled al-Daher.

Army intelligence agents on Thursday raided an apartment in the town of Asoun in the northern district of Dinniyeh, which was inhabited by a “group of terrorists,” killing three gunmen and apprehending a fugitive.

The wanted man has been identified as Ahmed Salim Miqati, who was reportedly involved in beheading captive Lebanese soldier Ali al-Sayyed and recruiting defected army troops for the extremist Islamic State group.

Meanwhile, several TV networks – including al-Jadeed, MTV and al-Manar – said the interrogation of Miqati has unveiled that he had been “communicating” with MP Daher via the WhatsApp mobile messaging application.

The militant sent to Daher “videos of defections of Lebanese army troops” while the MP used to send him “messages of motivation and encouragement,” al-Jadeed said.

Akkoumi had announced his defection to the IS group in a video released on October 11.

The army back then clarified that he had deserted the military institution on July 21.

Y.R.

Comments 9
Default-user-icon CFTC (Guest) 24 October 2014, 23:06

can it be clearer ?

Default-user-icon flamethrower (Guest) 24 October 2014, 23:19

me too! They banned me and deleted all my accounts and comments (:

Default-user-icon shia.and.proud (Guest) 24 October 2014, 23:21

how about dahyeh?

Default-user-icon the_roar (Guest) 24 October 2014, 23:28

I was also banned along with all my accounts, strange?!

Default-user-icon megahabib (Guest) 24 October 2014, 23:30

I think they did a complete house clean. I lost 12 of my accounts!!!

Default-user-icon josephani (Guest) 24 October 2014, 23:31

I still have 9 accounts I can still use loooooooool

Missing --karim. 24 October 2014, 23:31

Yes! Excellent news! Burn in hell terrorist!

Thumb Maxx 24 October 2014, 23:49

100 % with you on this one. But I would still prefer that I see the evidence of al-Daher's culpability first and ask for explanations to start with rather than rely on the testimony of a decapitating murderer with an agenda of his own to automatically condemn him.
We didn't need Qahwaji to tell us that ISIL (i.e., Islamic State in Iraq and the LEVANT) had long since set its eyes on Khalil Gibran's native land, so this could just as well be part of their strategy to bring about a helter-skelter civil war in Lebanon by turning us all against each other and then picking out the spoils from amongst our cadavers.
P.S., it's Khaled *AL*-Daher - Sunni from the North; Daher are Shia from the Bekaa - unrelated families.

Default-user-icon army123456 (Guest) 25 October 2014, 06:54

i am lebanese and proud