The Lebanese Army has foiled a series of suicide attacks since the twin suicide bombings in Tripoli Saturday, the military announced Thursday, adding that it arrested three people over the attack.
The Army said it arrested Bassam Houssam Al-Naboush, Elie Tony al-Warraq and Mohannad Ali Abdel-Kader who were plotting a series of terrorist attacks against “Army locations and residential areas.”
The three suspects, who had been using fake Syrian and Palestinian IDs, were linked to Shadi Mawlawi and Osama Mansour, two of the most-wanted Islamist fugitives in Lebanon.
The three suspects had pledged allegiance to “terrorist organizations and participated in the fighting in Syria as well as in attacks on the Army,” the statement said.
The statement added that Naboush, Warraq and Abdel-Kader had also participated in the series of deadly clashes over the last four years between the Tripoli neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.
