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Middle East News Arrested al-Qaeda members in Lebanon admit plans for infrastructure By DPA Jan 31, 2006, 19:00 GMT Beirut - The ongoing investigation into the emergence of an al-Qaeda terror network in Lebanon has revealed that members of the cell had plans to establish a military infrastructure in Lebanon with direct links to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Lebanese security sources said Tuesday. Lebanese security forces uncovered a terrorist network in December 2005 consisting of 13 people suspected of belonging to al- Qaeda and charged them with planning to carry out terrorist operations in various parts of Lebanon. According to the sources, the arrested members confessed to recruiting Lebanese and Palestinian volunteers from the northern port city of Tripoli, the eastern Bekaa valley and the 12 Palestinian refugee camps which are scattered across Lebanon. The Lebanese police confiscated weapons, including hand grenades, bombs and machineguns from the arrested militants. The Lebanese authorities expressed fears that the al-Qaeda network had taken a decision to form a base in Lebanon. In this regard the Internal Security Forces had re-enforced their anti-terrorism office, especially after Lebanon was hit with fifteen bomb blasts in 2005, including one which killed former premier Rafik Hariri in February. The sources said that some of those arrested confessed they had been preparing to carry out attacks in Lebanon similar to ones currently taking place in Iraq. Al-Qaeda has rarely launched attacks in Lebanon, although it has used allied factions to recruit scores of volunteers among Lebanese and Palestinian refugees who went to Iraq to fight. Recently an Iraqi group affiliated with Zarqawi claimed responsibility for three rockets fired from south Lebanon into Israel. Lebanon is currently facing one of its worst political and security crises since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. Last year\'s assassination of Hariri in a massive bomb explosion in Beirut sent shock waves through the country. Since then a wave of assassinations and assassination attempts have swept Lebanon targeting mainly anti-Syrian political figures and journalists. The UN commission of inquiry into Hariri\'s murder suspected the involvement of Lebanese and Syrian security agencies in Hariri\'s assassination. The anti-Syrian Lebanese opposition have blamed the Syrian regime for the blasts, a charge Damascus has denied. C 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur C Copyright 2003 - 2005 by monstersandcritics.com. This notice cannot be removed without permission. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
