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Syrian to be tried for plotting attack on U.S. embassy in Lebanon -agency
2020-02-14
[Ynet] A Syrian man held on suspicion of plotting an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Leb was referred to trial on Thursday along with 20 other people, the Lebanese state news agency NNA said.

According to the report, a Lebanese military judge had issued an indictment against the man on charges of belonging to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bully boy group and planning the operation on its behalf.

It said the man was suspected of having prepared explosives and of seeking to buy a drone for the attack. The agency gave no further details and did not spell out the allegations against the 20 others.
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