Suicide attack foiled in Beirut cafe, security source says

The suspected bomber was stopped while wearing an explosive vest as he attempted to enter the cafe and before he was able to detonate it, the source said, adding that he was injured during his arrest and taken to hospital.

In June, eight suicide bombers targeted a village in north Lebanon near the Syrian border, killing five people. Twin blasts in November 2015 left 43 dead in the mostly Shi’ite southern districts of Beirut.

The Shi’ite southern suburb of Beirut is the incubator area of the terrorist group of Hezbollah. The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, openly announced the interference of his group in Syria to join Assad terrorists in killing Syrians and besieging them. Hezbollah has heavy presence in Aleppo, Damascus neighborhoods of Madaya and  al-Zabadani on the Syrian-Lebanese border. 

Attacks in Lebanon risk widening sectarian fissures that lay behind the country’s 15-year-long civil war which ended in 1990 and that have been aggravated by the war in Syria.