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| Lebanon charges Qaeda suspects for attack plots | |
| 2009-06-30 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Lebanon's military prosecutor on Monday charged three suspects allegedly linked to al-Qaeda with planning terrorist attacks in Lebanon and Syria, a judicial source said. "Judge Saqr Saqr has charged the three people, none of whom are Lebanese, with forming a gang linked to al-Qaeda and preparing to carry out terrorist acts in Lebanon and against the regime in Syria," the source told AFP.
Lebanon dismantled an al-Qaeda network earlier this month, according to army chief Brigadier General Jean Kahwaji, who told a Kuwait newspaper it planned to "destabilize Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Gulf countries including Kuwait." In December 2007, Lebanon indicted 31 al-Qaeda-linked suspects, including a Saudi national and four Syrians, on charges of plotting to carry out attacks in the country. | |
| Posted by:Fred |