Lebanese Suicide Bomber's Goodbye Video Goes Viral
A video showing a young Lebanese man saying goodbye to his family and beloved ones before heading to Syria's Homs to carry out a suicide attack has gone viral online.
25-year-old Ahmed Diab, who is nicknamed as Abu Bakir al-Riyadi, carried out the suicide attack on Saturday.
Diab hails from the northern city of Tripoli.
According to media reports, Diab headed four times to Syria and engaged in battles against Syrian President Bashar Assad troops to leave again last week with the intention to carry out a suicide attack in Homs near an army checkpoint.
Lebanon is no stranger to violence. It suffered a brutal 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, and a string of political assassinations from 2005.
But after a period of relative calm, the country has seen a sharp uptick in violence linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria.
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