The State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr filed n Wednesday lawsuits against the detainee Jamal Daftardar and twelve other persons on charges of belonging to armed terrorist networks, such as al-Qaeda and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, with the intention of carrying out terrorist acts and recruiting, training and transporting people to and from Lebanon.
The lawsuits also included charges concerning forging identification documents, firing rockets towards Israel and possessing weapons and explosive devices.
In this context, sources told LBCI that Daftardar and his partners are accused of training people, providing them with funds and weapons before sending them to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to fight.
The sources added that Daftardar confessed to being behind the rocket attacks launched from South Lebanon towards Israel, but denied any involvement in the Iranian embassy attack.
Similarly, Tawfik Taha, Bilal Kayed and Naiim Ismail were also among those charged for links to al-Qaeda alongside Jamal Daftardar.
As for the detainee Omar al-Atrash, judicial sources told LBCI that he will be referred to the military judiciary, in order for Judge Saqr to take the appropriate measure concerning his file.
The Lebanese Army Intelligence arrested Omar al-Atrash Friday January 24, on charges of being involved in recruiting suicide bombers, smuggling rigged cars and explosive belts and planning terrorist attacks. On Sunday 25 January, al-Atrash confessed to bringing car bombs, explosive belts and suicide bombers to Lebanon.
LAF Intelligence arrested Jamal Daftardar, a leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group, in a raid on his hideout in the Bekaa town of Kamed el-Laouz on Wednesday January 15.
Jamal Daftardar was one of the leading figures in the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, a group operating in Lebanon which claimed responsibility for a bombing on the Iranian embassy in November which killed at least 23.
A double suicide attack targeted on Tuesday, November 19 the Iranian embassy in south Beirut’s Bir Hassan region, killing at least 23 people, wounding 146 and damaging buildings in the embassy compound.
For more details, watch Bassam Abou Zeid's full report in the video above