BEIRUT: The Tripoli bombing suspects planned to detonate explosives at Casino du Liban in Jounieh and Le Royal Hotel and Resort in Dbayeh, north of Beirut, local daily Al-Akhbar said Friday, according to the investigation.
The valuable information came from confessions from the suspects arrested in connection to a Jan. 10 suicide bombing of a crowded café in Jabal Mohsen in the northern city of Tripoli that killed nine people and wounded more than 30.
Al-Akhbar said the confessions were made by “suicide cell” members Elie Warraq, Qassem Taljeh, Bassam Naboush, Abdel-Qader Abdel-Fattah and others who were not identified.
Security sources said the detainees have links to Mahmoud Abu Abbas, another suspect who was arrested for his role in the transportation of suicide bombers as well as ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ex-wife Saja al-Dulaimi.
The report said some of the detainees were in contact with the spokesman for Abdallah-Azzam Brigades and were also coordinating with Shadi Mawlawi, one of the most-wanted Islamist fugitives in Lebanon.
Mawlawi, the report added, coordinates with the Nusra Front in Qalamoun.
The detainees confessed that the cars were being rigged with explosives on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal and in Qalamoun prior to being smuggled into Lebanon.
Other targets on the bombing suspects’ list were Shiite and Alawite concentration centers, Lebanese Army positions and checkpoints as well as Christian facilities
The sources said investigation indicates coordination between Nusra Front and Abdullah Azzam on suicide bombings.
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