Al Nusrah Front suicide bomber kills 5 in attack on Hezbollah

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Long War Journal:

Bill Roggio

January 16, 2014

 

The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant claimed credit for today's bombing in the Lebanese city of Hermel. The attack is the latest by al Qaeda-affiliated groups that have targeted Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

 

Today's bombing in Hermel, a city near the border with Syria in the Hezbollah-dominated Bekaa Valley, took place at rush hour near a government building, the Daily Star reported.

The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, one of two official al Qaeda branches that operate in Syria, released a statement on Twitter claiming credit for the attack.

 

"By the grace of Allah, a stronghold of the Party of Iran [Hezbollah] was shaken in a martyrdom-seeking operation whose knight was one of the lions of the Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon," the group said, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which obtained the tweets.

 

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Al Nusrah Front again targets Hezbollah in Lebanon
Bill Roggio

January 21, 2014

 

he Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, claimed credit for today's bombing in the Lebanese capital of Beirut that killed four people. The attack is the latest by al Qaeda-affiliated groups that have targeted Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

 

"We were able to respond to the massacres committed by Iran's party [Hezbollah] against the children of Syria and of Arsal [in northeast Lebanon] with a suicide operation that targeted the heart of its southern suburbs," the Al Nusrah Front said, according to the Daily Star.

 

Today's attack took place "just meters from the site of an explosion earlier in the month in the suburb that was claimed by the Al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS)," the Daily Star reported.

Today's bombing is the fourth major suicide attack and car bombing in Lebanon carried out by al Qaeda-affiliated groups against Iran and Hezbollah since mid-November 2013. The al Qaeda groups have advocated attacking Iranian and Hezbollah interests in Lebanon due to the their involvement in the Syrian civil war.

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