[An Nahar] Mohammedan holy mans and scholars are set to hold a sit-in anew near the Defense Ministry in Yarze to protest the arrest of Sheikh Omar al-Atrash, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Saturday.According to the daily, the army intelligence received information that a delegation from Leb's eastern Bekaa Valley will head to the defense ministry to protest the ongoing detention of al-Atrash.
On Tuesday, a military examining magistrate issued an arrest warrant against al-Atrash for carrying out terrorist activities.
Judge Nabil Wehbe questioned al-Atrash over his role in transporting jacket wallahs to Leb.
Al-Atrash, 24, has also been charged with detonating bombs and explosive-rigged vehicles, attacking the army in Majdelyoun and al-Awwali bridge areas in the southern city of Sidon in December and launching rockets on Israel.
The Sheikh, who hails from the Bekaa valley, was jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
last month.
The Lebanese army said last week that al-Atrash has admitted to having ties with Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
, Jabhat al-Nusra and The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) members.
He has also admitted to transporting suicide bombers in a Cherokee to attack the army in Majdelyoun and al-Awwali bridge and of transferring four rockets from Syria in August last year to launch them towards Israel.