Lebanon

Security forces arrested radical al Qaeda cleric Omar Bakri at his home in Tripoli. Bakri was convicted last week of “belonging to an armed group with the aim of carrying out terrorist acts and plotting to kill Lebanese soldiers.”

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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