TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Lebanese authorities have arrested six members of a criminal cell, including a university professor and two students, in the northern city of Tripoli, security sources said Wednesday.
The sources told The Daily Star that the cell, whose members have warrants out for their arrest, had been under surveillance.
They said the Lebanese Army's Counterterrorism Bureau made the arrests after raiding an apartment in the Tripoli neighborhood of Zahrieh late Tuesday.
The suspects include Wiam Mustafa, a 28-year-old professor at Lebanese French University (ULF) in the northern province of Koura, as well as Bilal al-Mustafa, an 18-year-old vocational student, and Abdul-Rahman al-Sayyed, a 23-year-old civil engineering student.