Judge Presses Charges against Tarras and Two Others over Links to IS
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Tuesday pressed charges against detained Sheikh Bassam al-Tarras and two other fugitives, Mohammed Qassem al-Ahmed and Mahmoud Rabih, for having ties to the Islamic State group, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The cleric was re-arrested last Wednesday after a brief detention in connection with the August 31 Ksara bombing.
He was summoned by the ISF Intelligence Branch for interrogation at the request of Assistant State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Hani Helmi al-Hajjar, who went to the branch's headquarters to oversee the investigations, reports had said.
Hajjar had ordered the arrest of Tarras pending further investigations in light of new information that was unveiled by Hajjar's interrogation of Tarras last week and the judicial writs that he issued as a result.
On September 15, the General Directorate of General Security said Tarras was briefly held in connection with the August 31 bombing over a meeting he held in Turkey with the attack's mastermind.
The brief arrest of Tarras, a former mufti of the Rashaya area, had created an uproar in Lebanon's Sunni community, especially among the ranks of the influential Muslim Scholars Committee and some Islamic activists.
11 October 2016, 14:15
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"Alleged" ties to ISIS gets you arrested and jailed in Lebanon.
Confirmed ties to a terrorist iranian militia gets you VIP treatment and preferential status.
11 October 2016, 19:44
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that should tell you something galaxy: daesh is a terrorist organisation, while hezbollah isn't, despite all your wishful thinking and relentless propaganda.
12 October 2016, 10:17
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.mowaten. I'm not a big poster here but I have been using this site for over 38 years and recently I have been liking your posts, your the only one informing these deluded ignorants. :)
11 October 2016, 19:59
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You dare speak of killing soldiers!?!?? It's the scum you support who kill Lebanese soldiers, who killed hundreds from saida to tripoli and to arsal! All you could do is scramble to find excuses for your terrorists and try to pass them off as victims.
