Terror Ring Leader Shuttled Between Tripoli and Damascus
Leader of the Tripoli terror ring Abdul Ghani Jawhar was monitored in the northern Akkar province two days ago, the daily As-Safir reported on Friday.
It said Lebanese security operatives are trying to "tighten the cordon on him."
The daily said one of the arrested suspects in the Tripoli terror ring has "told military intelligence investigators Jawhar made more than one contact last month with a Syrian mobile phone and managed to cross the border heading to the Syrian town of Homs, and then to Damascus, three days before the Sept. 27 blast" south of the Syrian capital which killed 17 people and wounded 14.
"Jawhar returned to north Lebanon a few hours after the Damascus blast," the report claimed.
The reported developments led to "upgrading the Lebanese-Syrian security coordination, especially regarding the (phone) numbers that had been registered and forwarded to the Syrian side," the report added without further elaboration.