Al Qaeda-linked group urged Leba**n attacks against Hezbollah before Wednesday bombin

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The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades had urged Lebanese Sunni Muslims to attack the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah a day before Wednesday's suicide bombing in central Beirut. ** claims of responsibility have been made for the attack but the Abdullah Azzam Brigades says it has carried out recent bombings in Leba**n, including an attack on the Iranian embassy in **vember which killed 23 people, mostly civilians. The group posted the message on Twitter on Tuesday, before a suicide bomber - said by Lebanese authorities to be a Saudi national - wounded three security ******rs in a hotel in the capital close to the Saudi Arabian embassy. Escalating sectarian violence in the region has seen Hezbollah send hundreds of fighters to neighbouring Syria to boost the forces of its ally President Bashar al-Assad against mainly Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.

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