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| Saqr Charges 13 with Belonging to Abdullah Azzam Brigades |
| 2014-01-30 |
| [An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Wednesday 13 people with belonging to the armed terrorist group, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... , reported the National News Agency. Detainee Jamal Daftardar is among those who have been charged. They were accused of planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Leb and recruiting and training individuals ahead of transporting them outside of Leb. Saqr also charged them with forging identification papers, firing rockets towards Israel, and possessing weapons and explosives. Daftardar was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in the western Bekaa region on January 15. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades grabbed credit for the November 19 double suicide kaboom against the Iranian embassy in Beirut. The brigades have grabbed credit for attacks throughout the region, including the 2010 bombing of a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and firing of several rocket strikes from Leb towards Israel. |
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