The Lebanese authorities
are reported to have arrested the head of a jihadist group that claimed
the suicide bomb attack on Iran's embassy in November.
Majid al-Majid was named as the Abdullah Azzam Brigades' leader in 2012 |
Defence Minister Fayez Ghosn told the AFP news agency that
Majid al-Majid, the Saudi "emir" of the al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam
Brigades, was being held by army intelligence in Beirut.
Hezbollah's al-Manar television also said Majid was detained "recently".
The embassy attack killed 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attache.
A Salafist cleric close to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades,
Sheikh Siraj al-Din Zureiqat, had issued a claim of responsibility in
its name.
He warned attacks would continue in Lebanon until Iranian and
Hezbollah forces stopped fighting alongside government forces in Syria,
and the Sunni group's prisoners were released in Lebanon.
nvestigators later identified the two suicide bombers as a Lebanese man
with ties to hardline Sunni groups and a Palestinian man with ties to
the fugitive Sunni Islamist cleric, Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir.
BBC
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