[AnNahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Thursday filed terror charges against the dangerous detainee Ahmed Miqati and 17 others."The military judiciary has received the terrorist detainee Ahmed Salim Miqati, 46, who is one of the top cadres of the ISIL (Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
) group and goes by the noms de guerre Abu Bakr and Abu al-Hoda," state-run National News Agency reported.
Miqati, the prisoner Fayez Othman, the detainee Ahmed al-Ahmed and 15 runaways were charged with "belonging to a terrorist group with the aim of carrying out terror acts."
The charges also included "the formation of gangs, recruiting individuals, training on the use of arms and explosives, and plotting to occupy the Dinniyeh region villages of Asoun, Bakhoun, Bqaa Safrine and Sir al-Dinniyeh with the aim of creating an IS emirate."
Miqati was also accused of "taking part in operations against the army, inciting the murder of its troops, stirring sectarian strife and possessing arms and explosives."
NNA noted that some of the charges are punishable by death.
Miqati was referred to First Military Examining Magistrate Riad Abu Ghida, the agency said.
On Monday, NNA said the dangerous Lion of Islam confessed that he had been plotting to establish an "Islamic emirate" straddling four towns in the northern district of Dinniyeh as part of a broader scheme to connect Syria's Qalamun to the Lebanese coast.
Miqati was tossed in the clink
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
at dawn Thursday in the Dinniyeh town of Asoun during a deadly army raid on an apartment that he and several
His confessions came in the wake of fierce festivities that erupted in 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...
's old souks Friday over a false rumor alleging that Miqati had died during interrogation.
The festivities spread to the Tripoli neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh, where a group loyal to Shadi al-Mawlawi and Osama Mansour was entrenched, and to the nearby region of Akkar where Sheikh Khaled Hoblos led an armed assault against the army.