Al-Nusra Front Official Says IS Plotting Attack in Northern Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
An al-Nusra Front official has revealed that the Islamic State extremist group is plotting a terrorist attack in northern Lebanon in the coming weeks, As Safir daily reported on Monday.
The newspaper said the official claimed on his Twitter account that the IS is planning for “a huge operation against the Lebanese army” in the northern city of Tripoli at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
The militant, who is known by the name of Abou Mohammed Saleh al-Hamwi, used to hold a top post in the Syrian province of Hama, said As Safir.
He stressed he had information that the attack would be carried out by the Iraqi Abu Qatada who has entered Lebanon from the Syrian province of Raqqa and has activated some sleepers cells in the North.
Abu Qatada is currently residing in Tripoli's al-Ramel neighborhood, claimed the al-Nusra Front official.
The IS's threat first came to Lebanon in August last year, two months after the group's summer blitz in which it seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.
In a surprise attack, IS and al-Nusra Front militants crossed over from Syria and overran the Lebanese border town of Arsal, hitting Lebanese army positions and taking with them soldiers and policemen captive.
The militants and their backers mainly in north Lebanon have carried out several attacks on the army since then.
15 June 2015, 08:27
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I wonder how you are and where you are dear flamethrower as you lay in pieces and tranquility at your final resting place.... RIP Shia Hero
15 June 2015, 08:28
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I want to ask As Safir if they have any reports on why flamethrower and I were banned repeatedly?
15 June 2015, 08:32
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Al Safir newspaper is hezbollah's mouthpiece and I doubt any of its reports are credible but rather fed by the party of terror to divert public opinion.
15 June 2015, 09:07
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moreover, they are quoting an al nusra front official :) suddenly al nusra is credible to them???
15 June 2015, 18:25
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no no, please disregard, we all know nusra doesnt exist and isis is not a terror organization thanks to jumby and jaja
15 June 2015, 18:47
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lol mowaten, you "imagine" a lot. what a load of bollocks mate, do you believe it yourself, or just hoping to fool some ignorants?
Just a blind hateful man, that's all you are mowaten. Your life must really be a monumental failure for you to be so bitter, and you probably deserve it.
You're not Lebanese, and even less honorable, so don't pretend to speak for what you're not.
15 June 2015, 22:13
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pajama keep your sectarian stench to yourself, and eagleyawn it's been a while, but you still can't make your own sentences i see.
15 June 2015, 09:40
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I respect As Safir, As mowaten, As meghabib, As flamethrower, and As blablablabla equally.
15 June 2015, 12:20
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al nosra are al qaeda affiliated terrorists and they will stay always terrorists like isis
and whoever is funding them and close to them is a terrorists too
god bless democracy
15 June 2015, 13:40
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a scorpion will always be a scorpion its his nature
so are those takfiries terrorist filth the only way to deal with them is total wipeout with their funders
god bless democracy
15 June 2015, 15:20
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IS wants to come to Lebanon, ya habibi, they are very welcome, they will taste what it is like to be at our receiving end of our knives. Ya hala bil dyouf, wlak sha2feh wara sha2feh.
15 June 2015, 19:23
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Yes yes Texy of Saudi it's more HA Taqiya the brave men of Al Nusra are honorable men would never chop anyone's head or kidnap anyone God bless the warriors of M14 Al Nusra and ISIS :)
16 June 2015, 00:09
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another propaganda stunt by hezbis to scare people and justify their failing adventure in syria... only hezbi lovers will believe it, the majority of lebanese won't fall for it....
