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| Palestinian suspected in Lebanon plot, 7 arrested |
| 2012-03-15 |
| The Lebanese army has tossed in the clink seven people, including two soldiers, suspected of being part of a Sunni Islamist network which had planned to carry out attacks on military targets, security sources said Tuesday. "The army tossed in the clink a Salafi network with connections to al Qaeda that wanted to blow up military bases," one of the sources said. "They had recruited two from the army -- one is a sergeant and another is a student officer -- and five civilians." He said the Lebanese army was negotiating the handover of the group's leader, a Paleostinian, with the authorities who run one of the Paleostinian refugee camps in Leb. He said the seven suspects were tossed in the clink 10 days ago. Another source said the two army suspects were transferred to a military court four or five days ago. "The issue now is in the hands of the judiciary," he said. It was not immediately clear whether the suspects are members of the jihad boy group Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred. which the Lebanese army fought for three months in 2007 in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in north Leb. Approximately 425,000 Paleostinians are registered as refugees in Leb by the UN, many of them live in 12 camps scattered across the country in bad conditions. |
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