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| Lebanon drops Jamal terror charges |
| 2006-04-12 |
| A LEBANESE appeal court has dropped terrorism charges against Sydney man Saleh Jamal. Jamal, 31, could walk free from a Beirut jail within weeks after the Lebanese Court of Appeal ruled that terrorism charges could not be upheld against him due to a lack of evidence. He allegedly told his wife, in an intercepted telephone call, that she would never see him again because he was going to a place "that is higher than the mountains". Prosecutors wanted to mount a charge that Jamal was planing to become a suicide bomber. His two-year sentence - slashed from five years on appeal - is due to expire next month, and he will be released to the custody of Lebanese General Security. It is then up to NSW police to extradite him to Australia to face charges in Australia over the 1998 shooting of the Lakemba police station, The Australian newspaper reports. He has previously threatened to crash a plane into the Harbour Bridge if he were forcibly returned to Australia. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |