Military intelligence arrested three Syrians and two Lebanese at the Harbata-Labweh checkpoint in the Baalbek region on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act; the five men were reportedly on their way to the Arsal hills with aid for Syrian opposition forces. One of them, Omar al-Satem, was said to be a wanted fugitive; his family disputed the report. Also in Arsal, a man abducted on May 27 by the Al Nusrah Front was released; and a grenade exploded in the hands of a Syrian man, killing him. The bomber in the June 20 attack in Dahr al-Baydar is said to have been a Syrian. One of three men arrested in Hamra on June 20 is a French national of Arab origin, who reportedly is a leader in a terrorist network. The mufti of Tripoli and north Lebanon, Sheikh Malek Shaar, claimed that “Tripoli does not host any single [member] of ISIS or al Qaeda.”
