BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:25 P.M.) – The Lebanese Internal Security Forces busted a large Islamic State (ISIL) sleeper cell in the northern city of Tripoli last week, the National News Agency (NNA) reported today.
According to an internal security memo, their forces identified members of the Islamic State that were working in favor of the terrorist group between Tripoli and Dinniyeh.
“As a result of field follow-up and preventive security operations carried out by the Information Division of the Internal Security Forces, in a bid to monitor the activities of terrorist cells, especially those associated with the terrorist organization ‘Daesh,’ the said Division succeeded in identifying members of a seriously dangerous cell working in favor of ISIS inside Lebanon. The organization members were mostly in motion between the city of Tripoli and the area of Danniyeh in northern Lebanon,” the statement read.