Lebanese authorities thwarted a plan by Isis to carry out bomb attacks during the country’s parliamentary elections earlier this year, the country’s caretaker interior minister said Monday.
The militant group smuggled explosives from Syria in buckets of cheese to use in attacks against places of worship, military targets and gatherings of Christians. But a 10-month police surveillance operation, codenamed “Lethal Cheese”, uncovered the plot.
An undercover informer working for Lebanon’s intelligence services acted as a would-be bomber for the operation, which the minister said was planned in rebel-held Idlib, northern Syria, and was designed to “cause chaos”. The agent was in regular contact with an Isis official identified as Abu Omar.
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Source: The Guardian