President Sleiman called for the withdrawal of Lebanese fighters from Syria. Authorities suspect that Mouin Abu Dahr, a Lebanese linked to fugitive anti-Hezbollah Islamist preacher Sheikh Ahmad Assir, was one of two suicide bombers who attacked the Iranian Embassy in Beirut on Nov. 19. US intelligence reportedly assessed that the Ziad al-Jarrah Battalion, the Lebanese branch of the Abudallah Azzam brigades, was behind the attack. Shortly before celebrations marking Lebanon’s independence day, authorities defused a car rigged with 350 kilograms of explosives and two mortars.
