2 Nusra Militants Held for Plotting to 'Destabilize Palestinian Camps'

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A Palestinian and a Syrian have been arrested for “belonging to the terrorist al-Nusra Front group” and seeking to destabilize the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, General Security said.

During interrogation, the Palestinian detainee said he had communicated with the Lebanese Nusra leader Hilal Yahia al-Hosni, aka Abu Maria, with the aim of heading to Syria's Daraa along with the Syrian detainee in order to join Nusra's ranks, a General Security statement issued on Thursday said.

“Abu Maria asked them to work for him inside the Palestinian camps, so they tried to join the group of the terrorist Bilal Badr during the latest Ain el-Hilweh clashes, but the intensity of the fighting prevented them from doing so, which prompted them to try to meet fugitive terrorist Shadi al-Mawlawi through a mediator,” the statement added.

The mediator, however, advised them not to approach Mawlawi in order to stay away from suspicions, it said.

“Consequently, Abu Maria asked N. A. (the Palestinian detainee) to assassinate a senior Palestinian official visiting the Shatila camp in order to create chaos and clashes in it and alleviate the pressure on the Ain el-Hilweh camp,” General Security said.

The Nusra leader also asked him to “shoot a video of the operation so that it be claimed by the terrorist al-Nusra Front group.”

“He started plotting for the operation but his swift arrest thwarted it,” General Security added.

The Syrian detainee meanwhile reasserted N. A.'s confessions and told interrogators that he was a member of Mawlawi's group and that he had taken part in attacks against the army during the 2014 clashes in Tripoli.

“After interrogation and after they confessed to plotting acts of sabotage in Lebanon, attempting to join the group of the terrorist Bilal Badr, and plotting to assassinate a Palestinian figure with the aim of stirring strife in the camps, they were referred to the relevant judicial authorities,” General Security added.

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