MUSLIM WITH SWEDISH CITIZENSHIP WANTED IN LEBANON FOR PROVIDING EXPLOSIVES TO SUICIDE BOMBERS





The Lebanese Security authorities circulated on Thursday the picture of a suspect who was accused of providing the Duroy Hotel bombers with explosives



Media reports indicated that the two attackers wanted to target Asaha Restaurant which is located on Imam Khomaini road in Dahieh near the Rasoul Azam Mosque.



“Following the authorization of the relevant judicial authorities, the General Security circulated the picture of al-Monzer Khaldoun al-Hassan, who was born in 1990 in Akkar’s Bizbina to a mother who hails from (Syria’s) Aleppo,” National News Agency ( NNA) reported.



Al-Hassan is a dual citizen .He also holds a swedish passport in addition to his Lebanese , NNA added



Al-Hassan “is suspected of having provided the terror cell that was raided at the Duroy Hotel (in Raouche) with suicide vests and explosives,” NNA quoted the General Security agency as saying.




The report added that he drives two cars: An old beige Nissan, and a 2005 silver Mercedes and “both cars may be booby-trapped.”



LBCI television said the man was arrested based on the confessions of the Saudi would-be suicide bomber who survived Wednesday’s blast and who was captured by the General Security.



“The arrested would-be suicide bomber told interrogators that he and his companion had intended to target al-Saha Restaurant near the Great Prophet Mosque in Beirut’s southern suburbs,” LBCI reported.




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