ISIL claims bombing in Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold: SITE

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AFP Dubai
Last Updated : Jan 04 2014 | 8:10 PM IST
The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has claimed credit for a deadly bombing in the Beirut stronghold of the "criminal" Shiite militant group Hezbollah, a monitoring group said today.
ISIL managed to penetrate the "security system of the Party of Satan (Hezbollah)...And crush its strongholds...In a first small payment from the heavy account that is awaiting those wicked criminals," according to a statement obtained by US-based SITE Intelligence Group.
Four people died and another 77 were wounded by a suicide car bomb in the Haret Hreik district.
It was the latest strike against the powerful party, whose fighters are aiding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war that pits him largely against Sunni Muslims, including ISIL.
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First Published: Jan 04 2014 | 8:10 PM IST

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