A suicide bomber killed two people and wounded at least 20 others when he was stopped at a checkpoint in the Dahr al-Baidar area of the Bekaa valley. The blast came within 200 feet of the convoy of General Security head Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, who was unharmed. A Mossad report published today claimed that the Abdullah Azzam Brigades was plotting to assassinate a senior Lebanese security official such as Gen. Ibrahim. Security forces arrested 17 men in Beirut thought to be part of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham plot to assassinate Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri there. Twelve of the suspects, who included Pakistanis and Palestinians as well as Lebanese, were in the hotel where Berri was to attend an Amal party conference. Security forces locked down many roads in Lebanon.
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