Saqr Charges 5 Lebanese and a Palestinian for Belonging to Terrorist Groups

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Thursday 5 Lebanese and a Palestinian for planning terrorist attacks against the army, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Four of the Lebanese are already under arrest while the Palestinian is at large.

The suspects belong to al-Nusra Front and have been incited by Shadi al-Mawlawi and Bilal Bader to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against army positions and the Internal Security Forces in the north after the killing of Osama Mansour.

Early this week, the Lebanese army intelligence arrested Abdul Rahman Tareq al-Kilani, a member of Osama Masnour's terrorist group, upon his return to Lebanon from abroad.

He admitted to belonging to Mansour's group and participating in attacks against army positions in the northern city of Tripoli.

He also confessed that while he was abroad, he was tasked by fugitives Bilal Bader and Shadi al-Mawlawi, to recruit teenagers to carry out terrorist attacks against the military and Internal Security Forces.

Mansour was shot dead by security forces in Tripoli in April, while al-Mawlawi remains a fugitive.

They have led armed groups that engaged in deadly gunbattles with the army in Tripoli and its surrounding areas in October.

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