BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Judicial Council sentenced 22 people to death Friday over their involvement in the 2007 Fatah al-Islam attacks on the Army, a judicial source said.
The 22 convicts were identified as: Mahmoud Mansour, Bilal al-Khodor, Ali Mustapha, Abdel-Aziz al-Masri, Ahmad Shawat, Bilal Badr, Mohammad Qaddour, Abdel-Karim al-Batal, Mohammad Mustapha, Wafiq Aql, Youssef Khalil, Youssef Shedid, Ibrahim al-Tarman, Moussa al-Amleh, Mahmoud Basyouni, Raafat Khalil, Nader Halwani, Ahmad al-Daqs, Haitham Mustapha, Shadi Makkawi, Adel Ouwayed, Ali Ibrahim and Dahham Ibrahim.
The source added that Khodor Merhi was sentenced to seven years in prison, while Fadi Ibrahim was found innocent and released from custody.
The council charged the 22 convicts with belonging to Fatah al-Islam, which is officially classified as a terrorist organization.
The indictment said the group aimed to weaken the Lebanese state and create a “takfiri fundamentalist emirate in north Lebanon first, and then expand to most [other] Lebanese areas.”
In 2007, Fatah al-Islam waged a full-fledged battle against the Lebanese Army in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon, leading to the death of 170 soldiers and 64 civilians.
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