{"id":262,"date":"2007-06-27T06:49:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T06:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2007-06-27T06:49:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T06:49:13","slug":"unifil-and-eido-car-bombs-the-same-murr-blames-al-qaida-by-t_desco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/unifil-and-eido-car-bombs-the-same-murr-blames-al-qaida-by-t_desco\/","title":{"rendered":"“UNIFIL and Eido Car Bombs the Same: Murr Blames al-Qaida” by T_desco"},"content":{"rendered":"
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t_desco has gathered the following news reports on the UNIFIL bombing and al-Qaida in Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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EFE reports that the same type of explosives was used in both the UNIFIL car-bombing and the attack on Walid Eido. Both also contained aluminum powder. <\/p>\n

As I had pointed out earlier<\/font><\/a>, large quantities of aluminum powder were confiscated in raids on Fatah al-Islam apartments in Tripoli, according to reports by Al-Akhbar and Al-Hayat.<\/p>\n

Murr blames Al-Qaeda-inspired groups for attack on peacekeeping forces<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Defense Minister Elias Murr characterized the car-bomb attack that killed six UN peacekeepers Sunday as “extremely dangerous” in an interview with Al-Arabiyya television on Tuesday. Murr blamed the attack on Al-Qaeda-inspired groups, citing intelligence reports. …
The Daily Star<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Lebanon needs help to stop arms from Syria: UN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

International security experts should be deployed to help a new Lebanese border force stop arms smuggling from neighboring Syria, according to a UN assessment team’s report released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The team, which was sent by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to assess monitoring of the Syria-Lebanon border, said that “the present state of border security was insufficient to prevent smuggling, in particular of arms, to any significant extent.”<\/p>\n

It called for the deployment “of international border security experts” to back up a new Lebanese “multi-agency mobile force” that would be tasked with doing a better job of stemming the arms smuggling.
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“There is still substantial room for improvements on the Lebanese border security management, some of which can only be reached through assistance and support from the international community,” the report said.<\/p>\n

It recommended that Lebanon set up “a multi-agency mobile force focusing on arms smuggling with the purpose of creating seizure results within a short timespan through its intelligence and rapid interception capabilities.” …
AFP<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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Ex-Dinnieh detainees deny link to Fatah al-Islam<\/em> <\/p>\n

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A group of former detainees captured in the Dinnieh region in 2000 denied in a statement issued Tuesday allegations of their involvement in the Nahr al-Bared conflict, saying that a “flood of false accusations by politicians and media members” had misrepresented the group. …
The Daily Star<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Update on the Australians:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aussies knew Lebanese cleric<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

THE small cell of Australians caught in the violence in northern Lebanon have two things in common.<\/p>\n

They all lived in Sydney and were associates or followers of Australian-born Islamic radical cleric Sheik Feiz Mohammed.<\/p>\n

At least four Australian passport holders, Ibrahim Sabouh, Ahmad Elomar, Mohammed Basal and Omar Hadba, remain in custody in Lebanon unable to speak with Australian diplomats after their arrest last week.<\/p>\n

And officials still can’t confirm another former Sydney man, Bassem al Sayyed, and his Lebanese wife were killed or held when Lebanese troops raided an apartment building on Sunday at Abu Samra, Tripoli.<\/p>\n

Sheik Feiz Mohammed is the former head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre at Liverpool in western Sydney and he now lives just a few kilometres from Abu Samra with his wife and six children.<\/p>\n

The Sheik, 37, a graduate of Medina University in Saudi Arabia, left Australia after it was revealed he had produced hate videos urging Muslim parents to give up their children as martyrs for jihad. …
Herald Sun<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

“Ahmed Elomar, an undefeated super featherweight who fought on the undercard of the Anthony Mundine-Danny Green bout last year, left Sydney suddenly two months ago without telling anybody, according to friends.<\/p>\n

Elomar is the nephew of Mohamed Ali Elomar, one of the nine men charged with plotting a terrorist act in November 2005.<\/p>\n

Omar Hadba, a dual Australian-Lebanese citizen, is still being questioned after Lebanese police raided his home last weekend and found what they said was a large quantity of weapons and military equipment.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant-Colonel Bassem al Ayoubi, chief of police in Tripoli, said Hadba told them of the cache under interrogation after being arrested last Wednesday, and also informed them of the militant cell involved in a 10-hour siege on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Colonel Bassem said that contrary to earlier reports no Australian died in that shoot-out, but that the Australian owner of the flat where it took place, Bassam el Sayed, was arrested later and is being held by Lebanese military intelligence. Police said the five militants who died in the shoot-out were Saudi, Chechen and Lebanese, not Australian.<\/p>\n

Another three dual Australian-Lebanese citizens are also still being questioned by police after being arrested in Tripoli last week but no connection has yet been established between them and the weekend violence.<\/p>\n

Consular officials have not been able to speak to any of the men. Besides Elomar, they are believed to be former Sydney financial adviser Ibrahim Sabouh and Muhammad Basal.<\/p>\n

SBS radio said yesterday that Hadba had migrated to Australia a few years ago but returned to Lebanon last year.”
Sydney Morning Herald\/AAP<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Hadba was a neighbour of Omar Bakri Mohammed<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“Sheikh Bakri told The Age he saw the weekend raid on the apartment of his neighbour, former Australian taxi driver Omar Hadba, where police allegedly found a cache of weapons and military equipment.
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Sheikh Bakri said he lived opposite Hadba in the Abu Samra neighbourhood of Tripoli, only 500 metres from the new apartment building where fighting broke out between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants on Saturday night. “I saw them carrying out a lot of stuff but it was only equipment. I didn’t see any weapons,” Sheikh Bakri said.”
The Age<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n

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Regarding Nabil Rahim:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just found this earlier (19\/04\/2007)<\/font><\/a> report by As-Safir which also makes the connection between “Sheikh Nabil R.”, Ahmed Abu Adass and the Mehlis Commission.<\/p>\n

Where does this story come from? Does anybody know?<\/p>\n

It seems rather unlikely, given that Nabil Rahim was based in Tripoli and Ahmed Abu Adass lived in Beirut (and nothing in the Mehlis report suggests that he traveled to Tripoli before the day of his disappearance).<\/p>\n

(As-Safir server seems down at the moment; I hope the link will work later.) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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