Lebanese police dismantle a prison’s ‘jihadist emirate’

By artappraiser on Thu, 01/15/2015 - 6:49pm |

France 24, Jan. 14, 2015

Lebanese security forces evacuated a notorious prison wing on Monday which was believed to serve as a headquarters for jihadist prisoners. Nicknamed “the emirate”, the notorious Block B of Roumieh prison, near Beirut, was so dangerous that guards had been too afraid to enter it for months....Lebanese authorities said that this operation had been planned for a long time. But....the decision to put it into action was taken when they intercepted telephone calls suggesting that Roumieh prisoners had taken part in the planning of a double suicide attack on a restaurant in an Alawite neighbourhood....

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