Lebanon foiled suicide bomb attack on Australia-Abu Dhabi flight

Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk talks after closing the polling stations during Beirut’s municipal elections in the Interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, May 8, 2016

Lebanon foiled a plot by a suicide bomber to blow up a plane bound for the United Arab Emirates from Australia earlier this month, Lebanon‘s interior minister said on Monday.

Nohad Machnouk told Saudi-owned television station Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath that the bomber was Lebanese and had planned to blow up a plane bound for Abu Dhabi.

Earlier this month an Australian man was detained in Sydney during raids to disrupt what authorities described as an Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb an Etihad Airways flight.