General Security Arrests Syrian Terrorist

General Security announced on Tuesday that it has arrested a Syrian man suspected of heading a terrorist group and booby-trapping vehicles.

“Syrian A.Aa. was apprehended for heading an armed terrorist cell, preparing explosives, manufacturing rockets and booby-trapping cars carrying Lebanese license plants at a factory he owns in the Syrian area of Yabroud,” said General Security in a communique.

It said the man has collaborated with other suspects through the coordination of Syrian F.Q. who has claimed responsibility for the double suicide bombing of the Iranian cultural center in Beirut last year.

General Security said A.Aa. was referred to the judiciary after the agency questioned him.

Efforts are underway to arrest the rest of the suspects, it added.

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