Conflict Incident Report

General Security Arrests 3 Lebanese Suspected of Recruiting IS Fighters

Date of incident:

August 26, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Lebanese Civilians

ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL))

General Security has arrested in the past two days three Lebanese nationals tasked with recruiting gunmen to fight alongside the Islamic State extremist group, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The agency's Intelligence Branch arrested the three men in separate raids in northern Lebanon. One of them was apprehended in the area of al-Mankoubine north of Tripoli and another in the city's Bab al-Ramel neighborhood. The third was arrested in a raid in the town of Talmaayan in the district of Akkar, said al-Akhbar. The daily quoted security sources as saying that the suspects' mission is to recruit men and facilitate their travel to Syria and Iraq. General Security is monitoring the activities of similar networks to arrest their members, said the sources.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/188336-general-security-arrests-3-leb...

Primary category:

Arrest/Detention

Classification of conflict (primary):

Power & governance conflicts

Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.

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General Security Arrests 3 Lebanese Suspected of Recruiting IS Fighters