How creative can they get ?

Placing a bomb in a chips.

Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) said that they have thwarted an explosion attempt in the southern port city of Sidon, local media reported.

The suspect carrying the bomb in a potato chips bag was arrested at local time 8:00 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Sunday, the ISF said in a statement published by local newspapers on Monday.

The 200-gram TNT bomb, which was defused by an ISF expert, was set to explode at 9:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) on the same day, the statement added.

The Naharnet news website quoted police sources as saying the suspect was a Palestinian and identified him as Walid Moustafa.

It said Moustafa was arrested shortly after he left the Ein el- Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon.

Meanwhile, the National News Agency said Monday that Lebanese troops found a mortar shell fastened to a rocket propelled grenade outside Ansariya School in the southern town of Nabatiyeh.

It said the army’s engineering unit safely dismantled the grenade.

The Lebanese authorities have seized large amounts of weapons and explosives in recent weeks.