European Islamists including UK-based extremist cleric Anjem Choudary called off a protest planned for Beirut; its aim was to denounce attempts to arrest Sheikh Omar Bakri and Muslims in north Lebanon, condemn alleged “conspiracy” between the Lebanese government and the Assad regime, and call for sharia law and the establishment of the caliphate. Three soldiers were wounded during a raid in Hermel. The military prosecutor filed terrorism charges against 12 people, 11 of them in absentia, for causing strife in Tripoli; among those charged is the Arab Democratic Party’s Rifaat Eid. A Lebanese man in Akkar found a grenade set to blow up his car.
