BEIRUT (FNA) – The Lebanese intelligence officials have foiled a plot by the militants, operating in Syria, to create a passage to West Bekaa, the South and the North to establish their planned emirate on Lebanese territories, a local daily wrote on Friday.
The As-Safir wrote that the Lebanese relevant authorities intercepted terrorists’ conversations and seized documents from extremist groups that revealed a plot to open the passage to the West Bekaa area through the Majdal Anjar Valley and to the South so that they could reach areas where Palestinian camps are located.
The plot included the establishment of a route to the Northern area of Qalamoun.
"This security belt” would have led to a scenario similar to the cross-border raid in the Northeastern town of Arsal and a previously thwarted plot to have an emirate in the North, a security official told the daily.