Lina Fakhr al-Din wrote in “Al-Akhbar”: The military court issued a 160-year prison sentence against the Emir of ISIS in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, Imad Yassin, after he admitted to planning to carry out dozens of terrorist operations, including the bombing of the Jiyeh and Zahrani factories, the assassination of former MP Walid Jumblatt, and the targeting of the Nabatieh market. Hotels in Jounieh and the Al-Jadeed Canal building.
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The 54-year-old man came to the session with a thick, gray beard and trimmed mustaches, wearing an abaya. He did not deny most of the accusations against him, after he publicly admitted his membership in terrorist groups. With his “mocking” answers, he seemed as if he did not care about what the court would issue, as he addressed Jaber by saying: “Write whatever you want!”
After belonging from the beginning of his life to the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,” coincidence led Yassin to attend religious lessons in the office of Sheikh Hisham Al-Shuraydi at the end of the eighties, where his relations with the extremists began, led by Ahmed Al-Saadi (Abu Muhjin), his brother Haitham, Ibrahim Hourani, Maher Hamad, and Taha Al-Shuraydi. Abdul Rahman Al-Khatib and Ahmed Al-Khatib. The religious lessons were mostly centered around establishing an armed Islamic organization aimed at establishing an Islamic state and declaring the rest of the sects, sects and groups as infidels, including the Lebanese state. Indeed, the organization was established under the name “Usbat al-Ansar” to begin the stage of military training for its members on light weapons, before developing into training on explosives, installing detonators and fuses, and subjecting them to a security course. This group carried out more than 20 security operations inside the camp to eliminate a number of officials of Palestinian organizations and people who consumed alcohol, in addition to destroying shops that sold “prohibited items” and removing a statue of the martyr Palestinian painter Naji Al-Ali.
After Al-Shuraydi was killed on September 16, 1991, and “Abu Muhjen” assumed responsibility for the organization, disagreements occurred between him and Yassin, who decided to cooperate with Osama Al-Shihabi to establish the “Jund al-Sham” organization, of which Yassin was appointed its military emir. After being subjected to an assassination attempt and being injured in his leg, he left the camp in 2015, and communicated through his relative Muhammad Mansour with leaders in ISIS, and sent one of his close associates, Ziad Kaoush, to Raqqa to discuss the camp’s situation with the leaders “Abu Ayoub al-Iraqi” and “Abu Muhammad al-Adnani,” and they agreed to establish an ISIS cell in Ain al-Hilweh, with Yassin as its commander, and to appoint princes for the sectors inside the camp and a Shura Council, with the cell monitoring the movements of the Lebanese army and the rest of the security services, determining the locations of weapons depots, and developing plans to set up ambushes for security personnel. Lebanese and planning to target infrastructure. Yassin, through Muhammad Al-Kota, tried to secure explosives and explore two sites: the oil station in Al-Zahrani and the Jiyyah electricity generation plant. He waited for ISIS leaders to approve the two operations and send money. He also suggested that the organization target the Casino du Liban, a restaurant, and hotels in Jounieh, the Nabatieh market, and the commercial center of Beirut “with the aim of striking tourism and the Lebanese economy,” and to assassinate the head of the Progressive Socialist Party at the time, Walid Jumblatt, “to fuel discord in Lebanon and push for a civil war, considering Jumblatt one of the smartest figures.” Politics.
After reconnaissance of Jumblatt’s two homes in Clemenceau and Al-Mukhtara, and because of the fortifications in them, “Imad Akl” replaced the idea and planned to target the Al-Jadeed channel headquarters with a car bomb due to its repeated attacks on it, but he also collided with the security measures around the channel after Al-Quta surveyed the building. Yassin laid out all the details leading to targeting these places using bags containing explosive devices that would be detonated in stages, or using truck bombs, but he was waiting for their funding before Lebanese Army Intelligence arrested him after its members entered undercover into the emergency neighborhood in the camp.
2023-09-27 03:09:56
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