Busted: The Plan To Terrorize Tripoli And Convert It Into An “Islamic Emirate”
Fascinating details have emerged about a so-called “Plan 755″ to terrorize Tripoli, cut it off from Beirut and turn it into an Islamic Emirate.
They had a plan
What most of you know is that the Army has been shelling and attacking the Nahrel Bared Refugee camp to root out the Fateh Al Islam terrorists. What people know less is that the Army has been busy rounding up many people in various neighborhoods of Tripoli itself.
For a good reason, it turned out. According to the daily Assafir (hardly the pro-government newspaper), the Army intelligence put its hands on a “treasure of Information” after questioning the Fateh Al Islam members it already has in custody.
It emerged that a terrorist operation of an unprecedented scale in the modern history of Lebanon was planned in Tripoli. That plan was dubbed (plan 755). The security operation also unearthed “huge” cashes of weapons, explosives and maps.
In a nutshell, the plan, which was being prepared since February 2006, was meant to start shortly after the attacks on the Army last week. The terrorists would be divided into three groups: One will attempt to cut the international road that leads from Akkar to Syria. One will conduct a huge terrorist operation in the center of Tripoli ( I don’t know what it is, but it could be perhaps a suicide attack on Brunch at peak time? ), and another will head to bomb the Shikka tunnel: a move that will significantly hamper traffic from Beirut to Tripoli.
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Hi Steve,
Just blogged about this and linked to you. Find Fatfat’s story not very credible.
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So now they have no excuse for stopping or negotiating.
It is either 1559 and 1701, or bust…
So what is next for Lebanon? Any plan of action on the political front or a repeat of this Fateh Al Islam situation or worse? Don’t know…Lebanon suffers because it has major flaws which is manipulated by foreign powers. Lebanon has to own its problems and solve it fair and square. You can’t live in a fantasy land grabbing the power and expecting others to remian calm and powerless. I am afraid of a Hezbullah clash which will take Lebanon one century back not to mention the loss of many lives and the flight of Christians.
Does anyone consider the same solution for Lebanon as the one that is often considered for Israel?
Namely, Sunni, Christian and Druze are a majority. How about you give up the South (call it Islamic Republic of Hizballastan or an autonomous region if you so wish). At the same time, move the residents of all the camps (or those you wish to move) to the South. Share the government in Beirut, with Shia enclave under Hizballah’s official rule.
Obviously it’s a bad deal for Israel as it brings all this happy bunch to our borders, but I’m just thinking, if I were a Lebanese, maybe it’s not that bad? Or it is impossible?
@guy
Because all muslims, including the supposed sunni and shi’a moderates, want to murder out all non-muslims.
They are only on “lebanon’s side” because they’d like to murder out eachother first.
“All muslims fight and kill for allah” - supposedly allah himself - quran 9:111
Come on A,
I’m a Muslim myself and I thank god day and night for the Lebanese Christians’ moderating effect on my co-religionists.
It is ignorance that breeds hate. The Lebanese Muslims are more moderate than their Arab brethren precisely because we are mingling with “the other”..
YA mustapha a farem alek…well said
@ A
let’s analyze the verse first;
9:111 Behold, God has bought of the believers their lives and their
possessions, promising them paradise in return, ,[and so] they fight in God’s cause, and slay, and are slain: a promise which in truth He has willed upon Himself in [the words of] the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Qur’an….
“Surat al toawba” talks about war times, hence “and are SLAIN” part, muslims are not allowed in any way to attack or kill innocent non-muslims during war or peace.
Some verses that prohibit muslims from killing innocents;
Quran 8:61 - But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One that heareth and knoweth (all things)
Quran 60:8 - God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers.
Quran 2:193 - And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for God. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrongdoers.
Quran 2:256 - Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy handhold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things.
Quran 15:2-3 - Again and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to God’s will) in Islam. Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them).
i dont want to go in a debate here, but you need to learn about islam before you attack it.
[...] The Lebanese Army foiled so-called Plan 755 which, reportedly, was a plot by Tripoli’s salafists to massacre local civilians, sever the city’s links to Beirut, and enslave the residents who couldn’t get out. [...]
Rice wrote a huge check. How much was it?
To me Quran is not a holy book (obviously), but hey, if you open Torah and the rest of the Tanach you’ll find plenty of examples too of calls for slaughter and what not. It’s how you interpret those that matters. I think demonizing Islam is just plain silly. Fight instead to reclaim it from the extremists who claim their interpretation is the right one.
That aside, any comments on the partition / federalization idea? What would Lebanese on the street say about it? How would the reactions of average sunni, shia, christian, druze differ?
People in the arab world regardless of there religion follow blindly what there parents worship, and no one can “obviously” conclude the divinity or the unholiness of a religion or a book if you didn’t understand or well-read about the religion,
I don’t want to go to detail about my personal beliefs here but for me I read both the bible and the quran and compared both religions rationally and objectively without family or society hassle, to me it was a life journey and it ended up strengthen my faith in god.
no one can be 100% sure of the credibility and the holiness of his belief or the existence of god, that’s why its call faith.
The paradigm has to change.1)Let Lebanon make peace w/Israel. Both countries could turn into the biggest financial powerhouse of the ME.2) There is no difference if Baby Assad or the M. Brotherhood is in charge of Syria. Both are bad for the Syrians Lebanese and for Israel.3) The camps have to be dissolved, the Palestinian people have to be absorved by their host countries and S. Arabia can finance this transition. They have suffered enough and they are still being castigated by their corrupt and inmoral leadership.(Israel absorved 3/4 million refugees from the Arab countries).
[...] Assafir’s main story yesterday detailed what we knew all along. That Alquaeda believed that the Northern Sunni city of Tripoli would be a friendly environment for it to start violent activities that would ultimately culminate in an “Islamic Emirate” in Northern Lebanon. [...]
[...] Who killed him: Hardline IslamistsWhy they did it: They want to revenge Mr. Hajj’s successful military campaign against their diabolical schemes in the Naher Al Bared camp in the north.Why it’s plausible: Only a suicidal freak can ram an explosive car in a General’s car in the heart of the Army’s security zone. Who believes this theory: Politicians might end up adopting this theory because it’s the most convenient and the most face-saving.Why the theory could be in doubt: for such a major “success”, you’d think Al-Quaeda’s leadership would jump in to claim it. That didn’t happen yet. [...]