Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Harb's Attempted Murder Suspect
Military Examining Magistrate Judge Fadi Sawan issued on Tuesday an in absentia arrest warrant for a Hizbullah member charged with the attempted murder of Batroun MP Butros Harb.
The state-run National News Agency said the judge is questioning witnesses in the case.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Feb. 1 Mahmoud al-Hayek with the assassination attempt on Harb last year and with carrying out acts of terror.
If convicted, the suspect, who still remains at large, could be sentenced to death.
Harb, a March 14 opposition lawmaker, escaped the assassination bid after residents of a building in which his office is located in the Beirut district of Badaro discovered individuals trying to booby-trap the elevator.
A string of high-level assassinations struck Lebanon between 2004 and 2008, targeting political, media and security figures who vocally opposed the Syrian government, including former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri who was killed in a powerful car bomb blast in February 2005.
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