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BEIRUT: A Lebanese man carries an injured woman away from the site of a car bomb explosion in a Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group at the southern suburb of yesterday. — AP Car bomb kills 5 in Hezbollah bastion Saudi hails arrest of Qaeda-linked suspect

BEIRUT: A large car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 20 Majid “is a terrorist who attacked his own country before attacking Peninsula and . The Lebanese unit is named after Ziad Al- in a Hezbollah bastion in south Beirut yesterday, a health ministry the Iranian embassy. The monarchy has been searching for him long Jarrah, a Lebanese who took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks source said. “According to an initial toll, five people have been killed before he staged this,” Ambassador Ali Awad Assiri told Al-Hayat. “He on the United States. and more than 20 injured,” the source said on condition of anonymity. has been wanted by the Saudi courts for a long time,” Assiri said. The It has sporadically fired rockets into northern Israel, and the Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television said: “The terrorist explosion targeted envoy also said Saudi Arabia “had informed all states that he was Brigades also claimed responsibility for the 2010 bombing attack of a a densely populated residential area, just 150 to 200 meters (yards) wanted. “Should DNA tests prove the person detained is indeed Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. It is named for the away from Hezbollah’s political bureau.” The official National News Majid, we will be pleased with the arrest.” Palestinian mentor of the late Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. He Agency reported that the explosion was caused by an explosives- The report comes a day after a Lebanese minister said Majid had was killed in a 1989 bomb blast. According to Islamist sites, Majid was packed four-wheel-drive vehicle in the Haret Hreik neighborhood. The been arrested by the army’s intelligence services and was being inter- revealed to be the leader of the Brigades in 2012. On Wednesday, a district is a symbolic one for Hezbollah, which once based many of its rogated “in secret.” Officials later said the suspect’s DNA was being Twitter account belonging to Sirajeddin Zreikat, a member of the leadership institutions in the area. Much of the neighborhood was tested to remove any doubt over his identity. Meanwhile, the Iranian Brigades, appeared to have been suspended. Zreikat had claimed reduced to rubble during the massive Israeli air bombing that accom- embassy in Beirut asked yesterday to be involved in the investigation responsibility in the group’s name for the Iranian embassy bombing. panied its 2006 war with Hezbollah, but it has since been rebuilt. into the double suicide bombing. That attack came amid rising tension in Lebanon over the role of Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said he had received a the -backed Shiite movement Hezbollah in the war in neighboring QAEDA-LINKED SUSPECT note from the Iranian embassy in Beirut that included “a request for . Hezbollah and Iran are allied with the Syrian regime, and it has Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has hailed Lebanon’s arrest of a Saudi access to the current investigation with Majid Al-Majid, with him dispatched fighters to battle the uprising alongside government who is the suspected leader of a group linked to Al-Qaeda, a pan-Arab being one of the suspects in the explosion that targeted the forces. In claiming the embassy bombing, Zreikat warned of more daily yesterday quoted Riyadh’s ambassador to Beirut as saying. Majid embassy.” He said he would raise the request with the relevant attacks in Lebanon if Hezbollah kept sending troops to support Syrian Al-Majid is the suspected chief of the , which authorities. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades group was designated in President Bashar Al-Assad. In 2009, Lebanon sentenced Majid in claimed it carried out a deadly November 19 double suicide bombing the United States in 2012 as a “terrorist organization.” The group was absentia to life in prison for belonging to a different extremist group, at Iran’s Beirut embassy that killed 25 people. formed in 2009 and is believed to have branches in both the Arabian the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah Al-Islam. — Agencies