REPORT: Army Intelligence raided Western Bekaa in search of al-Qaeda-linked cell -sources

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REPORT: Army Intelligence raided Western Bekaa in search of al-Qaeda-linked cell -sources
          
Sources told LBCI on Monday that the Lebanese Army Intelligence raided, during the past few days, the Western Bekaa region of Kemed al-Loz, in search of an al-Qaeda-linked cell which transferred Abdullah Azzam Brigades' leader Majed al-Majed from Hamed hospital in Western Bekaa towards al-Makased hospital in Beirut.        

The cell which was raided by the army is linked to another cell dubbed Lala which includes 4 members identified as Khaled al-Hajj aka Abu Takkeh, Youssef Bakri, Rabih Shawdar and Ahmad Osman.        

The aforementioned cell had transported Majed al-Majed from Syria's Qalamoun to the Lebanese border town of Arsal, and then to Hamed hospital where doctors were unable to treat him.        

Later on, Majed al-Majed was taken to al-Makased hospital in Beirut where he was arrested.        
A Lebanese army general said on Saturday the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group that has conducted attacks across the Middle East before shifting its focus to Syria's civil war died in custody in Lebanon.                 

The general said Majed al-Majed died after suffering kidney failure.                                             
In this regard, sources told LBCI that al-Majed was in a critical health condition the moment of his arrest, since he was suffering kidney failure.         

Al-Majed, a Saudi citizen was detained in Lebanon late last month and had been held at a secret location.          

He was the purported commander of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades and one of the 85 most-wanted individuals in his native Saudi Arabia.             

The US State Department designated the group a foreign terrorist organization in 2012, freezing any assets it holds in the United States and banning Americans from doing business with the group.


For more details, watch Nada Andraos Aziz's full report in the video above 

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