Report: Mawlawi still in Ain el-Hilweh, Visited by his Wife
Fugitive Islamist Shadi al-Mawlawi is still hiding in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh in southern Lebanon, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.
Judicial sources told the daily that his wife visited him on Friday with their four-year-old son Adam.
Her movement was monitored by security forces.
She was stopped at al-Madfoun checkpoint on her return trip to the northern city of Tripoli through Beirut.
She was released after her testimony was taken.
Mawlawi's wife admitted that he was still in the refugee camp.
On Wednesday, the fugitive had declared via Twitter that he had left the camp “to avoid the shed of Muslim blood.”
Mawlawi disappeared from Tripoli following gunbattles between his followers and the Lebanese army in October.
Media reports said last week that he fled the camp disguised in women's clothing and using fake identification papers, the same way he entered it in November.
His location was a dilemma despite a confirmation by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq that the most-wanted suspect fled to the northeastern border town of Arsal and joined al-Nusra Front ranks.
Arsal municipal chief Ali al-Hujeiri rejected the minister's claims, saying that he only based them on “assumptions and baseless analyses,” reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.
He admitted ti the daily that he does not have any information on whether the fugitive was in the town, stressing that its residents “will not hesitate in informing the army or intelligence agencies if they have any information on him.”
“Arsal and its locals refuse to serve as a conduit for fugitives, especially since the municipality is working on avoiding subjecting the town to any security tensions,” stressed Hujeiri.
M.T.
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