Alwaght-A suspected
Takfiri militant has reportedly confessed to taking part in terror attacks and
bombings in Lebanon, disclosing key information on terrorist plots and
activities by Takfiri elements, as Press TV reported.
The Lebanese
Army said in a statement that it arrested the Syrian national, identified as
Hasan Jamil Harba, last month “for belonging to terrorist groups and attacking
Army bases” and handed him over to the country’s judiciary on Saturday,
Beirut-based Daily Star news outlet reported.
“Important confessions [were obtained] about identities and
locations of individuals that rig cars, and other security information related
to the activities of terrorist groups,” added the Army statement.
It further
noted that Harba admitted to belonging to a Takfiri group and that he was
involved in planning and carrying out several terror attacks against the army
and civilian targets on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
According to
the report, Harba also confessed to participating in a failed assault on
someone using an explosives-laden vehicle in the border town of Arsal.
Additionally,
the detained terror suspect revealed that he had also killed a number of Syrian
nationals on the outskirts of Arsal.
Harba also
admitted to leading an armed group that worked between the outskirts of Flita
and Arsal in eastern Lebanon and taking part in a number of terrorist attacks
on army checkpoints at the gateways to Arsal from the east.
The terror
suspect had pledged allegiance to a Takfiri group and was appointed a commander
for the group’s operations within Arsal last September. It noted that he was equipped with seven
explosive devices and commissioned with planting them near Army bases.
Lebanon is
suffering from the spillover of Takfiri terrorism in neighboring Syria where
foreign-backed militants are fighting the government forces.
