Sunday, March 4, 2012

Lebanon: Prosecutor charges 11 suspected militants

A Lebanese military prosecutor on Wednesday indicted 11 suspected militants, including the alleged leader of an al-Qaida-inspired organization, with plotting terrorist attacks and monitoring U.N. peacekeeper movements, judicial officials said.

Military prosecutor Samih Hajj charged the men with forming an "armed gang," planning bombings against civilian targets and undermining the state, the judicial officials said. The suspects were also charged with trailing Lebanese forces and U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, as well as forging Lebanese passports and Palestinian refugees documents, they said.

Hajj requested the death penalty for the men, …

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