Was Hezbollah Operating 'Free Sunnis' Twitter Account?
15 Aug 201417:08 PM
Was Hezbollah Operating 'Free Sunnis' Twitter Account?

The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch has finally seized control over the Twitter account of the so-called Baalbek Free Sunnis Brigade, posting a header picture of the Lebanese flag and tweeting the arrest of H. Sh. H, the account’s operator.

 

“The Intelligence Branch arrested H. Sh. H., who confessed to operating the Baalbek Free Sunnis Brigade’s account,” the tweet read.

 

MTV has learned that 19-year-old Hussein Shaman al-Hussein, hailing from al-Sharawneh neighborhood of Baalbek, is a Shiite whose father is an Arab descendent granted the Lebanese nationality.

 

According to a security source, the suspect had confessed to being a member of Hezbollah and to managing the shadowy group's account.

 

Security forces managed to track down the suspect by uncovering the serial number of the Blackberry device that he had been using to operate the account. No other accomplices have been so far unveiled.

 

The said Brigade had claimed responsibility for several rocket and bomb attacks inside Lebanon, threatened to target Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq, army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji and Maj. Suzan al-Hajj, chief of the Internal Security Forces' Cyber Crime and Intellectual Property Protection bureau.

 

It had repeatedly slammed Lebanon’s military institution as the “Crusader Army” and vowed to attack churches in Lebanon and in the eastern Bekaa valley in particular.