Fugitive Suspected of IS Links Held in Tripoli as Arms Seized

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A General Security force on Tuesday arrested the fugitive A. D. in Tripoli's al-Zahriyeh neighborhood on suspicion of belonging and communicating with the jihadist Islamic State group, LBCI television reported.

A large army unit meanwhile raided a depot in Tripoli's al-Qobbeh district where it seized a quantity of weapons from a parked pickup truck, LBCI said.

State-run National News Agency said an army force raided the rooftop of a house in al-Qobbeh, seizing an RPG-7 rocket launcher.

Earlier in the day, the army's Intelligence Directorate referred to the judiciary an 11-member terrorist cell that was recently arrested in Tripoli and had ties to fugitive al-Nusra Front militant Shadi al-Mawlawi, the army said in a statement.

Mawlawi, who is believed to be hiding in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, had ordered the cell to “send bomb-laden cars to Beirut's suburbs and assassinate civilians and incumbent and retired army officers,” the army statement said.

“Based on the confessions of the members of the aforementioned cell, several locations were raided in the city of Tripoli and a large quantity of explosives, a suicide belt, remote detonation devices, weapons, ammunition and a pistol equipped with a silencer were seized,” the statement added.

Comments 13
Thumb justin 03 January 2017, 16:47

didn't the 'atheist' troll ( who now says god bless ) used to refer to the ISF as the Internal Salafi Forces and Riffi's boys? what happened!!!

Thumb ex-fpm 03 January 2017, 16:57

indeed 1anonymetexasusa ... this takiah follower of wilayat al faqih blesses the army as long as the army does what his iranian sectarian militia wants : facilitate the transfer of personnel and weapons across the border and turn a blind eye to their illegal criminal activities inside Lebanon.

Thumb Puppet 03 January 2017, 17:02

Mr. Flamethrower has earned my respect for finally 'blessing' the the lebanese army and the isf heroes despite his suspicion of both previously.

Missing rabbishlomo 03 January 2017, 19:28

Despite the fact he drinks arak while dancing dabki in Trablus and Saida, I lost all respect for texasusa due to his lies and insults thus rendering him "irrelevant

Missing rabbishlomo 03 January 2017, 19:51

I have lots of respect for the Lebanese army and the ISF.
Not easy catching sewer rats and throwing them in jail!

Missing rabbishlomo 04 January 2017, 00:52

"The Lebanese Army has been trying to arrest the big sewer rat Nassrallah" says abu 3igal the Saudi @texasusa.
Enjoy your arak and dabki in Trablus and Saida my Saudi boy, enjoy!

Thumb zahle1 03 January 2017, 20:21

Guys, there is no doubt there is a disproportionate amount of crime, theft and kidnapping coming out of the Shia community. There is no doubt they benefit from their support of HA which governs most of these areas some of which there is no rule of law. Yes HA gets support from Iran. However, if you are from the Christian community we are week, decentralized and have no real ally that supports us as KSA or Iran. Additionally, as much as I cannot forgive Assad, I still refuse to compare HA to takfiri. I am just being honest. I am totally aware of the HA double standard but if it was Nusra/ISIS replacing them we would all be dead.

Thumb zahle1 03 January 2017, 22:17

@1anonymetexasusa Neither one of them are going to hell. You cannot send Shiaa to hell especially.

@FT, what you say is true, strong army and strong state, but you have your own militia in addition to that. We don't. We might have a few dozen AKs best case. You have your own sectarian army. You are so smart you have been able to legitimize that through strong leadership but also with the threat of force which has been used internally, not just for Israel and ISIS. Don't forget what you did just over clipping telephone lines.

Thumb zahle1 03 January 2017, 22:24

And I really do believe we have to choose sides unfortunately. We have no friends. They all do. And we are all divided. They are united. It is our culture which has been ruined, that the Turks taught us, that our Christian denominations and villages, are all different in order to divide and conquer us. We allow it to remain and the Turks are long and gone. You can tell us we sectarian, but until ISIS is eliminated from Lebanon and HA turns in its weapons, WE ARE ALL sectarian. Anyone for HA weapons is sectarian.

Thumb zahle1 04 January 2017, 00:13

You have so many Christians that love Israel. I have so many here in the USA that were born in Lebanon like this. I have so many that love Syria. I visited a SSNP dominated church just this Sunday and was surprised how many are Lebanese even from Zahle LOL! You have so many Christians that love Saudi Arabia. I don't agree, I feel at least 30% are not loyal to Lebanon and Lebanon only. I guarantee 95% of Shiaa are loyal to HA and united around a single cause even if they are Amal.

Thumb liberty 04 January 2017, 06:11

"You have so many Christians that love Israel. I have so many here in the USA that were born in Lebanon like this."

I live in the States too and have never known a Lebanese Christian in the USA that loves Israel. I know all of them hate Hezbollah as much as I do. So spare us your BS and takiah lies.

Thumb gigahabib 04 January 2017, 15:16

Remember when he was released because Mustaqbal goons whined and cried for his innocence?

Thumb zahle1 04 January 2017, 17:28

@Liberty, I have not called anyone a name. I agree many Christians hate HA, probably most. But I can tell you in Detroit for example that the VP of Lebanese Forces is married to a jew, in fact a super Zionist jew. This is not BS and I do not lie. You can look it up yourself. Look their is a disproportionate amount of Christians that support Israel over HA. You can pretend things are not this way. We may be cleaner than many but we are far from clean.