By JERUSALEM POST STAFFPublished: JUNE 22, 2007 00:14Advertisement
A Lebanese prosecutor filed terrorism charges against 16 suspects on Thursday, accusing them of commuter bus bombings that killed three people in February, a judicial official said.
Of the 16 suspects charged by Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza, nine are in police custody, the official said. They include seven Syrians, a Lebanese man and a Palestinian woman.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give statements to media, told The Associated Press that all 16 belong to the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam group.
Members of that same group have for a month now been battling Lebanese army troops in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared, close to the port city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon.
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