Al-Qaida has purportedly issued a statement threatening to topple Lebanon’s “corrupt” Western-backed government, according to a London-based Arabic newspaper Monday. The Al-Hayat newspaper reported that al-Qaida issued the statement from the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared in northern Lebanon. “The organization has arrived in Lebanon and we will work on destroying this corrupt government that receives orders from the American administration,” Al-Hayat said, quoting the statement. Full Story