Lebanese official accuses Mossad of assassination attempt

The suicide attack left one person dead and wounded 37 in the country's Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border.

In an interview with Lebanese media, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, a Shia who heads Lebanon's Directorate of General Security (DGS) and ironically is considered close to Hezbollah, made the remarks, citing a document which had surfaced hours before the assassination attempt, and indicated the attack was planned in Ein Al-Hilwa Palestinian refugee camp.  

"Terror has many faces, and Israel is one of them," said Ibrahim

"We miraculously escaped," Ibrahim told Reuters, adding that many officials in Lebanon were being targeted by the reactivation of "terrorist sleeper cells".

"We were suspicious of the (bomber's) car when we were on our way and when the car stopped at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint, the explosion went off," he said.

The dead man was a police officer at the checkpoint. The wounded were mainly police, as well as civilians, in the area.