Lebanese army says arrested Islamic State attack plotter
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BEIRUT - Lebanon's army said on Saturday it had detained an Islamic State suspect accused of planning attacks against its troops.
The man was sent by Islamic State operatives in Syria to assasinate a senior Lebanese army officer. He had been surveilling the soldier's home, the military statement said.
"He also worked on securing the necessary weapons and explosives to execute this operation," as well as bomb attacks against the army and villages in north Lebanon, it said.
Authorities arrested the suspect, a Lebanese national, in the northern village of Wadi Khaled at the border with Syria, a security source said.
