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Terrorism Case Against Samaha Moves to Next Stage

Michel Samaha and Ali Mamlouk, along with a third accomplice known as Col. Adnan, have been indicted on charges of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks, writes Mohammad Harfoush.
Lebanese policemen stand guard at the entrance of a residential building where former Lebanese government minister Michel Samaha lives, in Beirut August 9, 2012. Samaha, a former Lebanese government minister with close ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was detained in Lebanon on Thursday for questioning over what the Lebanese prime minister described as security-related matters. A security source said Samaha, detained in the early hours, was being questioned about alleged plans to cause instability
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In a new judicial development in the case against former minister Michel Samaha and Syrian Maj. Gen. Ali Mamlouk, Lebanese military prosecutor Saqr Saqr has finished his examination of the case accusing Samaha and Mamlouk of planning to carry out terrorist acts.

Samaha was arrested in Aug. 2012. The following month, deputy military prosecutor Sami Sader filed a lawsuit against Samaha, Mamlouk and another Syrian colonel known only by his first name, Adnan.

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