Alwaght- Lebanese security forces have dismantled an ISIS-affiliated terrorist cell which used a religious school in north Lebanon as a front to operate.
As-Safir newspaper reported on Saturday that the said the network, located somewhere in Akkar, was directed by terrorists Omar Al-Satem who lives in Syria's Raqqa - ISIS's stronghold.
The school was used to train militants and recruit teenagers to join ISIS Takfiri terrorist group
The report added that five members of the cell were arrested who were accused of sending their recruits to Raqqa to join ISIS. Other recruits left home to carry out "terrorist operations," the report added.
It did not specify in what town in the north the school was located, or when it was uncovered.
The report also said General Security separately arrested a Syrian man who admitted to plotting a suicide attack under the direction of Satem.
Elsewhere in Baabda, Lebanese Army soldiers have arrested Ibrahim Mohammad Ezzeddine for belonging to a terrorist group and for supplying them with food and fuel.
Also Mohammad Sheikh from Wadi Khaled extraction has been arrested in Tripoli by Lebanese Army soldiers on charges of affiliation to a terrorist group and for gun-running of weapons and ammunitions for the same group.
Last November, Lebanese security forces arrested a key terror suspect accused of belonging to ISIS and plotting to carry out terrorist attacks.
Mazen Ahmad al-Hajj Hussein, codenamed Abu Ahmad and Saeed, was arrested in the northern city of Tripoli.
Hussein’s arrest came as the Lebanese Army and other security agencies stepped up their crackdown on terror cells following the deadly twin suicide bombings that struck the southern Beirut suburb of Burj al-Barajneh on Nov. 12, killing 46 people and wounding over 200 others, in the deadliest attack in Lebanon claimed by ISIS.
