Police raid Lebanon’s Roumieh Prison in crackdown on Islamists
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An elite force from the Internal Security Forces launched an operation against Islamist prisoners inside the notorious Roumieh Prison, a security source told The Daily Star Monday.
In comments to a local TV station, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said a security plan inside the detention facility’s bloc B - known to house a concentration of high-profile Islamist detainees - had begun.
Machnouk told Al-Jadeed that the crackdown came in the aftermath of information that some of the prisoners were connected to the weekend’s twin suicide attacks that targeted a cafe in Tripoli’s majority Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen. The suicide bombings killed at least 9 and wounded more than 30.