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Hizbullah Appointed MP Nawwar Sahili as Sheikh Omar Bakri's Defense Lawyer
[An Nahar] Hizbullah MP Nawwar Sahili said Hizbullah has appointed him as defense lawyer for radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri.Bakri was jugged by Lebanese police in Tripoli on Sunday, just days after the formerly Britain-based holy man boasted he would "not spend one day" of a life sentence behind bars. On Monday, Bakri appointed Sahili as his lawyer for the retrial. Bakri now faces a retrial before a military court in line with Lebanese law as he was sentenced in absentia. Police said Bakri tried to flee in a car as the patrol closed in on his house in Tripoli, prompting an officer to open fire to prevent him from escaping. Bakri, a Sunni Mohammedan fundamentalist, has appealed to Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for help. Posted by: Fred 2010-11-17 |
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