Terror link established between Akkar weapon seizure and recent bombings in Lebanon

"An army force raided the house of Ali Mohammed Kanaan in Fneideq,” the military institution said in a communique.

Kanaan is wanted on several arrest warrants and was not found in the house during the raid, the statement elaborated.

"Forty-two dynamite sticks and 34 120-millimeter and 80-millimeter mortar shells, 14 propellant charges for the mortar shells, and 36 stun grenades were seized during the raid,” the army revealed.

Thursday's raid comes amid recent security developments in different regions in Lebanon.
Last Wednesday, a Saudi man blew himself up at the Hotel Duroy in the Beirut neighbourhood of Raouche as security forces stormed his room, killing himself and wounding several others.

The security raid followed the arrest last Friday in a hotel in the nearby Hamra district of the capital of a Frenchman of Comoran origin on suspicion of plotting to carry out suicide bombings in Lebanon on behalf of the ISIL.

On Monday, a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near an army checkpoint and a cafe just after midnight in the Tayyouneh area on Dahieh's peripheries. The bombing killed one person and wounded 20.

Another bombing in eastern Lebanon last week killed a police officer and wounded several others.

The authorities are now looking into the possibility that terror cells in Lebanon intend to sow insecurity and discord amid otherwise peaceful communities as part of a greater scheme to weaken the region.