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Lebanon interrogates Saudi jihadist tied to Iranian embassy attack

Published Wednesday, January 1, 2014
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The Lebanese source, who declined to be named, told Reuters that Majed al-Majed, the "emir" of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, had been arrested by the Lebanese army together with another Saudi militant.
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The Abdullah Azzam Brigades was designated in the United States as a "terrorist organization" in 2012.

It had also claimed responsibility for firing a barrage of rockets towards occupied Palestine from southern Lebanon in August.

The group was formed in 2009 and is believed to have branches in both Lebanon and the Arabian Peninsula.
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In 2009, Lebanese authorities sentenced Majed in absentia to life in prison for belonging to a different extremist group, the al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam.

That group was involved in heavy fighting with the Lebanese army in 2007 in the Palestinian Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, in which more than 400 people were killed, including 168 soldiers.
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