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Beirut airport workers did not plan terrorist activities-investigations

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The investigations with the detained Beirut airport workers revealed on Monday that they did not plan to carry out any terrorist activities.

Lebanese authorities have detained three Lebanese employees of a Beirut airport service company over contacts with "terrorist parties", security sources said on Sunday.

Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Zeaiter said last month that Beirut airport needed at least $24 million to address pressing gaps in security, including a new perimeter wall and baggage inspection equipment.

Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouq has said safety procedures at the airport are inadequate, comparing it to Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport, where a bomb planted on a Russian plane killed 224 people in October.

The Islamic State militant group and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front have both mounted suicide bomb attacks in Lebanon since the eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011.

The Shi'ite group Hezbollah is fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war.

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