05 January 2014 (02:15 UTC-07 Tango)/03 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/15 Dey 1392/05 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
19 November 2013: The Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is bombed. 25 people killed, including a diplomat. U.S. funded al Qaeda group, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claims credit for the bombing.
26 December 2013: Lebanese Armed Forces capture Majid (Majed) bin Muhammad al-Majid, a Saudi Arabian working with Abdullah Azzam Brigades. Lebanese officials suspect Majid was brought in by Saudi Arabia, in 2012, to lead Abdullah Azzam Brigades in attacks against Shia Lebanese, and Iranian targets. For some reason the public report of his capture was delayed until 01 January 2014.
Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, said Majid is “…a Saudi emir….directly linked to Saudi intelligence…”
03 January 2014: It was reported that Lebanese officials confirmed the ID of Majid through DNA testing. It was also reported that he suddenly became too sick to be interrogated. It turns out that Majid was already in hospital on 24 December. Whatever his condition was it worsened, and the Red Cross/Crescent was contacted for transport to a better hospital. The Lebanese Armed Forces intercepted that call and that was how they captured him on 26 December. He ended up in the Baabda military hospital.
04 January 2014: Majid dies. The Lebanese Armed Forces claim he died from kidney failure (which was why he was in the hospital to begin with), and was so sick they could not interrogate him (how convenient). Saudi Arabia is demanding the immediate return of Majid’s body. Many eastern news media outlets point out that the death of Majid prevents important info from ever being known.
Iranian officials are demanding an autopsy to determine the true cause of death: “Under the current circumstances, it is necessary for the Lebanese government to conduct tests and perform an autopsy on al-Majed to establish the cause of his death……..al-Majed was a clue to many elements behind the terrorist act outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, his interrogation would have definitely yielded useful information…..”-Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Foreign Policy and National Security Committee of Majlis