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Daesh-linked suspect arrested in Lebanon for planning to poison troops

Thursday, 27 September 2018 4:36 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 27 September 2018 4:39 PM ]

This file picture shows members of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces during a parade. (Photo by Daily Star newspaper)

Lebanese security forces have arrested a young Palestinian man on suspicion of attempts to carry out two poisoning plots, one of Lebanese army water and another of food in a foreign country.

The 27-year-old unnamed refugee has confessed to being in contact with a member of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in neighboring Syria “who tasked him with making explosives and concocting poison,” the General Security force said in a statement on Thursday.

He prepared to “concoct a quantity of deadly poison along with someone living in a foreign country” for two planned poisonings.

The first was to “poison one of the water tanks from which the Lebanese army's trucks fill up on water every day to take it to the army barracks.”

The second was to “carry out a mass poisoning in a foreign country through poisoning food during a public holiday,” the statement said, without specifying the location.

The statement highlighted that the Palestinian suspect has been referred to relevant judicial authorities, and that the authorities are looking for other people involved.

The Hezbollah resistance movement and the Lebanese military have been defending Lebanon on the country’s northeastern frontier against foreign-backed terrorist groups from neighboring Syria.

Hezbollah fighters have fended off several Daesh attacks inside Lebanon. They have also been providing assistance to Syrian army forces to counter the ongoing foreign-sponsored militancy in their country.

The movement has accused Israel of supporting Takfiri terrorists operating in the Middle East.

Israel, which continues to occupy Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms and Syria’s Golan Heights, is widely reported to be offering medical help to Takfiri terrorists injured in Syria.

On September 19, Syrian government forces uncovered a considerable amount of Israeli-made medicine and medical supplies in a field hospital belonging to foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants in the country’s strategic southwestern province of Quneitra.

PressTV-Syria finds Israeli medical equipment in militant hospital

Government forces have found Israeli-made medical equipment at a militant field hospital in Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that army soldiers made the discovery in the village of Bariqa as they were combing the area for hidden ordinance and improvised explosive devices, which Takfiri militants had planted there.

The report added that the hospital had modern CT scan, X-ray medical imaging machines, laboratory equipment and a pharmacy containing various types of antibiotics, vaccines and painkillers.

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