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| Army Arrests Man in the Bekaa over Alleged Links to Omar Al-Atrash |
| 2014-02-09 |
[An Nahar] The army on Saturday raided the house of Nawaf al-Hussein in the village of Jlala near Shtaura in the Bekaa and placed in durance vileDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! him over his alleged links to Sheikh Omar al-Atrash. "An army unit raided a house in Jlala and arrested its owner Nawaf al-Hussein," the state-run National News Agency reported. LBCI television explained that the arrest was made after detainee al-Atrash confessed to ties with al-Hussein. "The arrested man was then escorted to the Ministry of Defense for investigation," LBCI added. Later in the evening, LBCI pointed out that the brother of Nawaf al-Hussein, Abdul Aziz al-Hussein, was also detained following al-Atrash's confessions. On Tuesday, a military examining magistrate issued an arrest warrant against al-Atrash for carrying out terrorist activities in the country. Judge Nabil Wehbe questioned al-Atrash over his role in transporting jacket wallahs to Leb. Al-Atrash, 24, has also been charged with detonating bombs and explosive-rigged vehicles, attacking the army in Majdelyoun and al-Awwali bridge areas in the southern city of Sidon in December and launching rockets on Israel. |
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