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| Arrest Warrant Issued for Bakri on Multiple Terror Charges |
| 2014-06-10 |
| [An Nahar] First Military Examining Magistrate Riyad Abu Ghida on Monday issued an arrest warrant for detained radical holy man Sheikh Omar Bakri on multiple terror charges, state-run National News Agency reported. Abu Ghida interrogated Bakri regarding charges of "belonging to armed terrorist groups; training bully boyz on arms and explosives; seeking to create an Islamic emirate in the North; and delivering religious sermons containing insults against the state and the army and incitement to civil war," NNA said. On Tuesday, the military prosecutor had charged Bakri, who was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! last month, with belonging to terrorist organizations and plotting to establish an Islamic state. The krazed killer Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... , an al-Qaeda breakaway group, is among the groups Bakri is accused of belonging to, according to NNA. The Lebanese authorities had issued an arrest warrant for Bakri for involvement in the festivities in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... but he fled to an unknown destination in April. He was apprehended by the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau at his residence in the Mount Leb town of Aley on May 25. Bakri lived in Britannia for almost 20 years before settling in Leb in 2005 after he was banned from London under government curbs following the underground and bus bombings that year. The Syrian-born holy man, who also holds Lebanese nationality, has denied he has any links to al-Qaeda although he said he believed in "the same ideology." |
| Posted by:Fred |