Caretaker Minister of Defense Fayez Ghosn disclosed important security data following the ongoing investigations with suspects in security operations carried out across Lebanon.

The Minister said that the information he was providing were neither analyses nor speculations, but they were facts based on investigations the LAF intelligence services carried out, which included confessions of the arrested suspects.

"The decision to disclose facts on the latest security events in Lebanon is based on our conviction in the need of naming things the way they are," the Minister said.

Ghosn explained that revealing such facts would put an end to all assumptions and speculations aimed at creating a fuss amid the Lebanese public opinion.

As per Ghosn, the information were:

"The LAF intelligence arrested suspect Hassan Hussein Rayed who admitted carrying out, along with Omar Ahmad al Atrash, terrorist operations and booby traps.

Rayed admitted having killed a number of LAF members on Army checkpoint in Wadi Hmayyed-Arsal, along with other suspects and four Syrian nationals.

The suspect also confessed that he, with other parters of Syrian nationalities, murdered four people of Jaafar and Amhaz families and a Turkish citizen in Wady Rafeq.

The culprit was also part of the two Hermel blasts that wounded a number of army officers and soldiers."

According to Minister Ghosn, Rayed was aware of his partners' (Omar Al Atrash, Sami Al Atrash, Zuhair Hussein Amoun, Sameh Al Baridi and Ahmad Abdel Karim Hmayyed) setting up several booby traps to explode them in Beirut's southern suburbs and other Lebanese regions.

"The army intelligence investigations also knew that Omar Al Atrash was the mastermind of the group," he said.

Suspects were also charged with setting up Bir el Abed explosion, on 9/7/2012.

Ghosn also said that the Army intelligence has strong links to the rocket launching on Beirut southern suburbs and it is tracking down one of the involved suspects.

"The LAF and its intelligence services are vigilant on the country and its people," Ghosn said.

"Based from our keenness on the civil peace and awareness of the seriousness of the army's information, we chose to disclose a small amount of them to inform the public opinion so as to, in turn, ward off sedition and strife amid the Lebanese," Ghosn explained.

"I call on the Lebanese people to support the Lebanese military institution in catching criminals to prevent them from targeting innocent civilians and sabotaging our national unity and coexistence," he said.