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| Lebanon MPs warned of
Islamist assassination threat BEIRUT - Two Lebanese members of parliament have been warned of possible assassination bids against them by an Al-Qaeda-inspired radical group, one of the MPs told AFP on Tuesday. "The army command informed me that some members of Fatah al-Islam are preparing suicide attacks against me and fellow MP Moustapha Hachem," Moustapha Allouch said. He said both MPs, who represent the anti-Syrian bloc in north Lebanon where the army fought a deadly 2007 battle with Fatah al-Islam militants, had taken precautionary measures that included cutting back on public appearances. An army spokesman who did not wish to be identified confirmed that the security services had concluded that attacks might be being planned against certain MPs. "The security services have warned the MPs concerned that they could be targets," he said, without giving further details. The 2007 uprising by Fatah al-Islam in the north Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared left 400 people dead. A number of the group's militants are believed to have succeeded in escaping the army's siege of the camp. The anti-Syrian camp in Lebanon led by parliamentary
majority leader Saad Hariri accuses Damascus of backing Fatah al-Islam. Syria for its part
accuses the Hariri bloc of aiding the radical group. |
