A senior Lebanese security official says army commandos have recaptured fugitive from an al-Qaeda-inspired group a day after he escaped from prison. The official says Taha al-Hajj Suleiman of the Fatah Islam group was captured Wednesday in the woods north of the Roumieh prison east of Beirut.
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A day earlier, eight Fatah Islam staged a dramatic prison break but only Suleiman was able to escape. Police and army forces launched a search campaign in areas around the prison until Suleiman was captured.
Fatah Islam fought a three-month battle against the army inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared in northern Lebanon in 2007.
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