Al-Qaeda cell plans to assassinate Sayyed Nasrallah

Beirut, 2007 Nov 15, Al-Manar

By Hanan Awarekeh
 
15/11/2007 An al-Qaeda cell tried to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah last summer, the Lebanesedaily As-Safir reported Thursday.
 
According to the report, the Lebanese security services are currently conducting a vast investigation into al-Qaeda's activities in Lebanon. Several al-Qaeda cell members have been arrested, and have admitted – among other things – to firing Katyusha rockets at the Palestinian occupied territories on several occasions.
 
The cells are also investigated in connection with a conspiracy to attack UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon. The attack, which failed to materialize, was meant to look link the Hezbollah’s handiwork.
 
Lebanese security services, said As-Safir, have uncovered three al-Qaeda cells operating in southern Lebanon. Search and seizure operation in the region further uncovered some 150 pounds of cyanide and other chemicals used to make explosive devices; several hundred pounds of explosive, said the report, have already been shipped back to Iraq.