Lebanon detains 8 Syrians for plotting attacks on UN peacekeepers, tourists
BEIRUT- Lebanon has detained eight Syrians accused of plotting suicide bomb attacks at popular tourist spots and on Lebanon's United Nations peacekeeping force, Lebanon's intelligence agency said on Thursday.
A series of bomb attacks have struck Lebanon since the beginning of neighbouring Syria's civil war in 2011, some of them linked by security forces to militant groups based in Syria.
The eight men were arrested on charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation and communicating with extremist groups, Lebanon's General Security directorate said in a statement carried by state news agency NNA.
The group was planning attacks on restaurants and cafes in tourist areas and on UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon which patrols the southern border with Israel.
