facility:beirut hotel

Man connected to Duroy Hotel attack killed in #Tripoli clashes with armed forces
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A Lebanese-Swedish man wanted in connection with a June hotel bombing was killed on Sunday by a grenade he was handling as police moved to arrest him, a security official said. Mounzer Khaldoun al-Hassan was suspected by police of providing explosive belts to two suicide bombers who blew themselves up when police raided their Beirut hotel on June 25. That raid at the Duroy Hotel had followed the arrest days earlier in another hotel of a Frenchman on suspicion of plotting to carry out suicide bombings in #Lebanon on behalf of jihadists. read more

#France confirms citizen arrested in Beirut hotel raid
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France confirmed Tuesday one of its nationals had been arrested in #Lebanon on suspicion of planning an attack. Lebanese security forces on Friday detained 17 people in two hotels in Beirut following a tip-off that attacks by a “terrorist group” were being planned in the capital and other parts of the country. A judicial source told AFP Monday that all had been released except a Frenchman originally from the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean. French foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal confirmed Tuesday that “a French national was arrested in Beirut.” read more

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Police arrest “terror suspects” in #Beirut hotel raid
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/police-raid-beirut-hotel-search-fugitive

Updated 1:05 pm: Lebanese security forces raided a hotel in Beirut Friday morning, arresting over a dozen “terror” suspects. Local TV stations are reporting that police had received a tip that jihadists had taken refuge inside the Napoleon Hotel in the commercial Hamra district, with some claiming at least 17 members of a “terror group” were captured. Al-Jadeed news channel said it confirmed at least 17 people of Lebanese, Arab and European nationalities were arrested in the raid. read more

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