DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: 'AL QUEDA OF THE LEVANT' WILL BOMB/TERRORIZE CHRISTIANS UNLESS BEIRUT PULLED BACK FROM 'PALESTINIAN' REFUGEE CAMPS

‘Al Qaeda wing’ vows to carry out bombings

DUBAI: A group calling itself Al Qaeda’s wing in the Levant vowed to carry out bombings in Lebanon and attacks on Christians unless Beirut pulled its army away from Palestinian refugee camps.

“We warn you for the last time, after which there will be nothing apart from seas of blood,” said a speaker identified as the military leader of the group in a video posted yesterday by a media arm used by Islamist groups including Qaeda in Iraq.

“What we want is that you order the Christian Lebanese army to pull its men from around all Palestinian camps and the Nahr al-Bared Camp in particular,” he said addressing Maronite Christian Patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir.

“If you do not stop we will wrench out your hearts with ... bombs,” said the speaker whose face was covered with a chequered headdress and who had rifle magazines around his torso.

There have been three bomb attacks in Lebanon this week since clashes between the army and the Al Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam militant group erupted this week at Nahr al-Bared camp.

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