BEIRUT, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese army said on Tuesday that it has arrested a terrorist cell of 10 members planning to attack UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), troops and targets abroad.
A Lebanese army statement said investigations revealed the network was planning to smuggle terrorist elements from the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Hilweh to carry out terrorist attacks, local Elnashra website reported.
Ain El-Hilweh camp is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, filled with various extremists groups.
"The cell members are non-Lebanese, belonging to several Arab states. Some of them were working for private companies using their jobs as covers for their operations," the army statement said, without disclosing which Arab countries the men were from.
The cell members were monitoring UNIFIL troops and the Lebanese army in order to carry out terrorist attacks against them, the statement added.
In June, military sources said the Lebanese army had uncovered 25 Israeli-linked spying networks working for the Israeli secret service Mossad, according to the report.
Six fundamentalist Islamist groups linked to al-Qaida have been uncovered by the Lebanese army since the beginning of 2009.
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