Lebanon arrested the coordinator of a deadly attack claimed by the IS

The coordinator of a murderous attack in November in a suburb of Beirut and claimed by the Islamic State Group (EI) was arrested on Sunday, told AFP a source of security services.
This double suicide bombing had 44 dead and 240 injured Nov. 12 in a crowded shopping street in the district of Bourj Barajné, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah.
“Internal Security Forces (ISF) arrested Sunday in Tripoli (north) Abu Talha, coordinator of a cell responsible for two attacks in Bourj Barajné,” said this source.
She said the suspect was in contact with the IE to Raqa self-proclaimed capital of the jihadist group in Syria.
He has been arrested “following a complex surveillance operation especially Abu Tahla plunged into hiding after the arrest last month of the brains of the operation Bilal Baqar.”
In a statement, the ISPs have confirmed the arrest at dawn in Tripoli “an essential part of the terrorist group that carried out the attacks in Bourj Barajne”.
A source of the security services in northern Lebanon identified the suspect as Zeinedinne Khaled, 29, a native of the Akkar region (north).