Jihadists claim 'suicide' blasts near Iran's Beirut embassy
Nov 19, 2013
A jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for what it called a double suicide bombing on Tuesday outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which killed at least 23 people.
A jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for what it called a double suicide bombing on Tuesday outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which killed at least 23 people.
“This is a double martyrdom operation carried out by two heros from the heroic Sunnis of Lebanon,” Sirajeddin Zreikat, a member of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, wrote on his Twitter account.
The Lebanese army confirmed it was a double suicide bombing, and such attacks are the hallmark of Al-Qaeda.
Zreikat warned of new attacks in Lebanon, so long as the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, which backs Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, does not withdraw from Lebanon.
AFP