Lebanon finds spy device hidden in fake rock
The Lebanese army says it has dismantled a spy device hidden inside a fake rock in the Chouf forest district southeast of the capital, Beirut.
Troops found a device in a fake plastic rock in the green area between Barouk and Ain Zhalta in southwestern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said on Tuesday.
Three locked bags were found next to the artificial rock with cables hanging out of them, it said.
According to the army, the bags were used to operate the device, which was connected to a sound amplification system. The military has launched an investigation.
The Lebanese army and Hezbollah have in the past dismantled several surveillance devices, some of which belonged to Israel.
Israel has continued to use offensive tactics aimed at creating chaos in Lebanon. It has planted devices not just on Hezbollah’s civil telecommunication networks, but also on its military ones.
Two Daesh terrorists captured
The army also arrested two suspected members of Takfiri Daesh terrorist group on the outskirts of the country’s northeastern town of Arsal, which borders Syria.
The army said the two suspects, who were hiding in a secret compartment in a pickup truck, were detained in the Wadi Hmayyed area of Arsal on Tuesday, Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star reported.
Lebanon is suffering from the spillover of militancy in neighboring Syria, where foreign-backed terrorists have been fighting government forces since 2011.
Daesh and al-Nusra Front, which is a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria, have been active on the outskirts of Arsal.
The militants briefly overran Arsal in August 2014, taking several Lebanese army and police forces hostage, some of whom were executed. In December last year, most of the captives were released as part of a prisoner swap deal.
Assisting Syrian army forces, fighters with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement have thwarted several Daesh attacks.
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