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Lebanese General Security Bust Daesh Cell Fronting As a Fake Football Team

Lebanese General Security Bust Daesh Cell Fronting As a Fake Football Team
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Lebanese General Security Wednesday announced the arrest of four suspects believed to have links to Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] who formed a fake football team to recruit young men into a terror cell.

Lebanese General Security Bust Daesh Cell Fronting As a Fake Football Team

In a statement, General Security said that the suspects, all Syrian nationals identified by their initials as B.S, Kh.S, M.Z and Y.Z were arrested.

During questioning, the statement reported that the suspects confessed that they had links to Daesh, and that B.S had sent his wife to Syria to join her family who are also Daesh loyalists.

He then pledged his allegiance to the terrorist group in front of his wife's brother Mohammad, who is believed to be a fighter with the group in Raqqa - Daesh's embattled de-facto capital in Syria.

B.S was then put in contact with Abou Omar al-Shami, believed to be a Daesh "immigration officer" in Raqqa. He contacted him with help from his brother Khaled, who has been previously arrested by General Security, and then tried to leave for Syria several times with his wife's brother Sleiman, who is also under arrest.

The group said that the situation was never safe enough for them to make the move, and they consequently decided to create a Daesh network inside Lebanon.

Their goal was to recruit you Lebanese and Syrian men in the hope of forming numerous Daesh sleeper cells across the country. They would then plan and carry out security missions for Daesh in Lebanon.

The suspects are believed to have recruited numerous young men to join them under the pretext that they were starting a football team.

However, the statement from General Security reported that the team's training sessions were regularly interrupted by religious lessons that focused heavily on the extremist ideology of Daesh in an attempt to indoctrinate the new recruits.

All the suspects were referred to the judiciary for further investigation, and work is underway to arrest the remaining members of the network.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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