House Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday saluted the Internal Security Forces and its Information Branch, which have uncovered earlier today a terrorist network planning to target Lebanon’s security and civil peace.

Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces [ISF] foiled plans by a terrorist network to carry out three suicide attacks in the country, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi had earlier told a news conference.

Mawlawi said the network was affiliated with ISIL and that the plans for attacks, near the capital Beirut, involved gunfire and fire from rocket-propelled grenades in addition to suicide vests.

“Three separate targets were to be hit at the same time,” the ministry said, in an operation Mawlawi said would have caused a large loss of life.

Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said the instructions for the bomb plot came from an ISIL operative based in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh.

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