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January 9, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=21412

Four Al-Qaeda-Linked Palestinians Heading for Gaza Arrested in Lebanon

(Daily Star-Lebanon/Maariv-Hebrew) Haim Issarovitch - Four Palestinians arrested Saturday in northern Lebanon said they were planning to carry out military attacks against Israeli targets along the Gaza coast, the London-based Al-Hayat reported Thursday. The Palestinians were detained by the Lebanese Army as they attempt to leave the country in a ferryboat packed with weapons and explosives, a high-ranking official said. He said the Palestinians confessed they belonged to Asbat al-Ansar, an Islamist armed group considered a branch of al-Qaeda, based in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon. They also said a key figure in the group from the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in the north had planned the operation and provided the boat. Asbat al-Ansar leader Abdel-Karim al-Saadi, who has been sentenced to death for murder, is widely believed to be holed up in Ain al-Hilweh, which is controlled by Palestinian armed groups.

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