Suicide Bombers Resided in Verdun Hotel before Attacking Iranian Embassy

Lebanon: Iranian embassy terrorist attackLebanese daily Al-Akhbar revealed Thursday that the security investigations has reached substantial data regarding the perpetrators’ identities who committed the terrorist bombings targeting the Iranian Embassy in Bir Hasan, southern of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

The investigations also led to know the place used by the bombers before carrying out the assault.

“The suicide bombers arrived in Beirut a few days before the operation. Upon arrival, they went to Sheraton 4-Points Hotel in Verdun area, and resided there until committing the suicide the day before yesterday,” the newspaper said.

According to preliminary information posted by Al-Akhbar, comparing footage of suicide bombers – as appeared on cameras located in the vicinity of the embassy – with specific information and some of the evidence found at the crime scene, the security services discovered the place of their residence at Sheraton hotel.

“A security unit went afterwards to the hotel and lifted fingerprints from the room hired by the bombers. It found some needs which both have left behind. The security unit could get their identity cards from the hotel management which they used during reservation, and confiscated all recordings of surveillance cameras in the hotel,” the daily narrated.

“It has been turned out that one of the IDs used by the suicide bombers, which was found at the crime scene, refers to real data of a Lebanese citizen and has been forged for bearing a portrait which is not for its real owner,” the daily said.

“Security forces arrested the true ID’s holder without any suspicion against him,” it added.

“According to the information”, the newspaper noted, “through investigations, it has been possible to reach some information that indicates the executive operator of the suicide bombers in Lebanon.”

Al-Akhbar also underlined that “the security agencies suggested that the suicide bombers were non-Lebanese, and that they carried forged identity cards in the hotel.

“But even overnight, the nationality of any of them have not been resolved,” it concluded.