DNA Tests Confirm Al-Majid’s Identity, Iran Sends Team to Share in Interrogation

Lebanon confirmed on Friday that a man in army detention is the leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group that operates throughout the Middle East.

The announcement confirmed the detention of Majid bin Muhammad al-Majid, reported leader of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, but Lebanon had refrained from commenting on his identity before DNA results were known.
“After conducting a DNA test, it is clear that he is the wanted Saudi national Majid al-Majid,” a report published on the Lebanese Army’s website said on Friday.

The group has claimed attacks across the region, most recently a double suicide attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut in November, which martyred at least 23 people.

Meanwhile, Iran plans to dispatch a delegation to Lebanon in order to take part in the interrogation process of the main suspect in a terrorist bombing attack on its embassy in Beirut, the Iranian foreign minister said Friday.
In a telephone conversation with his Lebanese counterpart Adnan Mansour, Mohammad Javad Zarif conveyed the country’s president’s gratitude to the Lebanese government for its successful efforts to capture the commander of a terrorist group that masterminded an attack on Iran’s embassy in Beirut in November last year.

Zarif said given the detained individual’s role in insecurities in the region and his role in the assassination of two embassy staffs, the Islamic Republic has decided to send a team to Lebanon to take part in the procedure aimed at questioning Majed al-Majed, the mastermind behind the terrorist attack.

During the Friday telephone conversation, Mansour welcomed Iran’s decision to take part in the interrogation of the detained terrorist, expressing the hope that the detention of terrorists in Lebanon would heighten security in that country and in the whole region.
Earlier on Thursday, Iran’s Envoy to Beirut Ghadanfar Roknabadi voiced Tehran’s willingness for participating in interrogating the Saudi commander of the Abdallah Azzam Brigades.
“Iran officially asked Lebanon to participate in the investigation with Majid al-Majid given that he is the one responsible for the Iranian Embassy bombings,” Roknabadi said.

And in a separate statement on January 3, Iran’s foreign ministry called on Lebanon to bring the perpetrators of the November attack to justice as soon as possible.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran hopes the relevant Lebanese authorities would adopt wise measure to hold the terrorist elements accountable for their heinous and inhumane crimes in a fair court and in the shortest possible time,” read part of the statement.

Source: Alahednews