"Abul Abed" Arrested in Connection to Syrian TV Confessions
Lebanese Security on Saturday arrested a Lebanese named Khaled al-Itter also known as "Abul Abed", whose name had surfaced during the confessions on Syrian television of a group accused of carrying out an earlier bomb attack in Damascus.
A Lebanese security source told Agence France Presse (AFP)" the arrested individual is in his thirties, arrested Saturday in Tripoli."
Last Thursday Syrian television broadcasted a program detailing the confessions of ten individuals who affirmed that Fatah al-Islam a group headed by Shaker al-Abssi is behind the explosive rigged vehicle that blew up on the Damascus Airport road last September 27th killing 17 and wounding 14.
According to these television confessions, an individual identified as security leader of the Fatah al-Islam group named Abdel Baqi Mahmoud al-Hussein, stated that he had earlier met with Shaker Abssi in Lebanon "more than once at the Bedawi Palestinian refugee camp following the Lebanese army takeover of the Naher al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp" adding that "Abul Abed" was the go between.
Hussein pointed that "Abul Abed" is a Lebanese residing in Tripoli.
Shaker Abssi previously was imprisoned in Syria for his connection to the al-Qaeda group. He later moved to the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and lead the Fatah al-Islam group. Abssi succeeded to flee from Nahr al Bared following its capture by the Lebanese army in September 2007.