VIDEO: Lebanese army seizes top al Qaeda-linked militant

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The Lebanese Armed Forces arrested on Wednesday a Palestinian national identified as Naim Abbas dubbed "the most dangerous terrorist in the country."Preliminary information revealed that Abbas had been on the receiving end of a network smuggling booby trapped cars from Omar al-Atrash.This as the Lebanese Armed Forces units carried out raids in the Tariq al-Jdide region near Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque.The state-run National News Agency reported that the LAF units dismantled a black RAV 4 SUV loaded with explosives parked in a parking lot in the Corniche al-Mazraa region, noting that the Palestinian arrestee Naim Abbas confessed the presence of the said vehicle shortly after he was apprehended.He also mentioned that the car was set to explode in the Dahiyeh region.Sources reported to LBCI that the dismantled car in the Corniche al-Mazraa region carried 100 kg of explosive material and an explosive belt.Preliminary information also revealed that the raid operations aim at searching for additional car bombs, adding that Abbas may be linked to a number of suicide bombers who carried out attacks across Lebanon.

Later in the day, military sources reported to LBCI that an LAF unit seized 4 rockets ready to be launched towards Beirut in al-Dababiyeh region based on the accounts of Naim Abbas.

The sources added that the testimony of an Internal Security Forces member revealed that he was in no way found to have links with Naim Abbas.



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This as the LAF Intelligence Bureau arrested last week Mohammad al-Ajouz, a leader in of the Abdallah Azzam Brigades who is also linked to the arrestee Jamal Daftardar.Last week, sources told LBCI that Jamal Daftardar and Omar al-Atrash worked for the same terrorist organization, but without coordinating with one another.The sources added that al-Atrash started his work with the aid of Syrian refugees, adding that when he visited Syria, he met with officials of al-Nusra Front who recruited and trained him.The Lebanese Army Intelligence arrested Omar al-Atrash Friday January 24, on charges of being involved in recruiting suicide bombers, smuggling rigged cars and explosive belts and planning terrorist attacks that have recently rocked the southern suburb of Beirut and Hermel.On Sunday 25 January, al-Atrash confessed to bringing car bombs, explosive belts and suicide bombers to Lebanon.Similarly, LAF Intelligence arrested, Jamal Daftardar, a leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group, in a raid on his hideout in the Bekaa town of Kamed el-Laouz on Wednesday January 15.Jamal Daftardar, was one of the leading figures in the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, a group operating in Lebanon which claimed responsibility for a bombing on the Iranian embassy in November which killed at least 23.In recent months, several car bomb attacks, implemented by suicide bombers, rocked areas that are considered Hezbollah strongholds in the country; of which were two bombings that hit the Beirut southern suburb region of Haret Hreik, and two other bomb attacks that targeted the Bekaa town of Hermel.The surge in violence in Lebanon is linked to the three-year conflict in neighboring Syria, with sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims rising on both sides of the border.