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Lebanon charges 43 Syrians with belonging to terrorist groups

By REUTERS

AUGUST 14, 2014 19:32

BEIRUT, - Lebanon on Thursday charged 43 Syrians, including an Islamist commander whose arrest sparked five days of fighting between Islamists and the Lebanese army, with belonging to armed terrorist groups and seeking to establish an Islamic emirate.

A judiciary source said 10 of those charged were in custody, among them 30-year-old Emad Gomaa, who had been a member of the Nusra Front, an al-Qaida affiliate fighting President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria, but recently switched allegiance to the ultra-hardline Islamic State.

His arrest this month prompted Islamist militants in the town of Arsal on the border with Syria to seize a police station and take more than 30 police and soldiers hostage.

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