Who is behind Beirut explosions?

‘Abdullah Azzam’ terrorist brigade has taken the responsibility for today’s explosions near Iran’s embassy.

Mehr News reported that two consecutive blasts rocked the street near the Iran’s embassy in Beirut, and within hours, Azzam Brigades, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group took the responsibility for the blasts. The second blast, from a car bomb, rocked the automobiles and houses nearby, killing at least 23 and injuring 150.

But who are these terrorists and how they would plan the explosions? The militia group founded in 2009, has been mainly active in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. Now, it provides help for Syrian rebel fighters against president Bashar al-Assad.

The group attacked a Japanese oil tanker crossing Strait of Hormuz three years ago. At that time they took responsibility for explosion in Japanese oil tanker as well as other deadly attacks during recent 9 years.

A branch of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, the group has called itself Abdullah Azzam Brigade. Abdullah Azzam was a Palestinian global Jihad leader who fought the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and assassinated in an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Abdullah Azzam Brigade had not recognized the state of Lebanon in one of its many statements, designating it as part of Levant territories. Three years ago and just before a visit by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Lebanon, the group threatened if Ahmadinejad visited Lebanon, it would rock the Lebanon with tremors [of explosions], resorting to ‘measures out of imagination.’

The statement accused Hezbollah of Lebanon implementing Iran’s plan to establish a Shiite state in Levant territories, threatening Hezbollah to attack three cities of Lebanon, Bent Jubail, Qana, and Beirut (where Ahmadinejad had attended). However, the threatened attacks were never realized in action.

Zionist daily Haaretz reported last year in a report that Abdullah Azzam Brigades had threatened Hezbollah and other Resistance groups. “If these groups continue to support Syrian government, they would be subject to attacks by Brigades,” the report had said. Haaretz welcomed the group’s threats as if it were acting in Zionist camp.