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The Lebanese authorities are reported to have arrested the head of a jihadist group behind the suicide bomb attack on the Iranian embassy in November.Defence Minister Fayez Ghosn told the AFP news agency that Majid al-Majid, the Saudi "emir" of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, was being held by Lebanese army intelligence in Beirut.Hezbollah's al-Manar television also said Majid had been detained recently.The embassy attack killed 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attache.