Army raids Lebanon camp to seize murder suspect -
20th August 2009
AFP - 20 August 2009
BEIRUT - Lebanese soldiers raided a Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday and arrested a man suspected to have taken part in a killing spree 10 years ago in which four judges died, a judicial source said.
The man was detained in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp, near the southern coastal city of Sidon, the source said.
His arrest was the first in the case of the four judges — including the chief prosecutor for south Lebanon — who were gunned down in June 1999 in the Justice Palace in Sidon by armed men who entered through a window.
For a decade the identities of those behind the attack remained a mystery, although press reports at the time suggested that a tiny banned radical Islamist group called Esbat Al-Ansar may have been responsible.
Ain al-Helweh houses around 45,000 refugees and is the largest of the 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, which are considered highly volatile and fertile breeding grounds for extremism.
The Lebanese army does not generally enter the camps, leaving responsibility for security to Palestinian factions instead.
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Leading Islamist Member Implicated in Murder of 4 Judges Arrested
Lebanese troops arrested Wednesday a leading member of another al-Qaida-inspired group as he was trying to enter the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon, a security official said.
Sheikh Wissam Tahbish of the Jund al-Sham, who was grabbed from inside a car, is implicated in the 1999 murder of four Lebanese judges, the official said.
Several arrest warrants have been issued against Tahbish who is also wanted for his alleged involvement in terror attacks in Lebanon, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. (AP)
BEIRUT - Lebanese soldiers raided a Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday and arrested a man suspected to have taken part in a killing spree 10 years ago in which four judges died, a judicial source said.
The man was detained in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp, near the southern coastal city of Sidon, the source said.
His arrest was the first in the case of the four judges — including the chief prosecutor for south Lebanon — who were gunned down in June 1999 in the Justice Palace in Sidon by armed men who entered through a window.
For a decade the identities of those behind the attack remained a mystery, although press reports at the time suggested that a tiny banned radical Islamist group called Esbat Al-Ansar may have been responsible.
Ain al-Helweh houses around 45,000 refugees and is the largest of the 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, which are considered highly volatile and fertile breeding grounds for extremism.
The Lebanese army does not generally enter the camps, leaving responsibility for security to Palestinian factions instead.
At least someone is doing there job in this country... Crazy how it took 10 years....
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it took them this long because jund el sham are funded by Bahia "ilal lika2" Hariri
No, it took them that long because we had to wait for heros like Jean Kahwaji, Edmond Fadel and Georges Khamiss to take things in their own hands. Salute to all our beloved Lebanese army, to these heros and to their Godfather in the army
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Good. Let those Wahhabi nuts go back to where they belong-- six floors below the ground in a rotting prison cage. I hope they add some art to Geagea's grafitti.
Army raids Lebanon camp to seize murder suspect -
20th August 2009
