Arrest warrants issued against 5 Al-Meqdad clan members

Military Tribunal Judge Imad al-Zein kicked off on Wednesday investigations with detained members of the al-Meqdad clan members. He interrogated and then issued arrest warrants five of the suspects. They are being held on charges of forming an armed group aimed at carrying out terrorist attacks, kidnapping people, and possessing weapons and explosives. Six members of the clan were originally arrested when the army carried out raids in their neighborhood in Beirut's Dahiyeh southern suburb. Interrogations are set to resume on Thursday with the remaining clan member, as well as three Syrians who were also detained during the raids. The clan's military wing had abducted in August a number of Syrians and a Turkish national in retaliation to the kidnapping of their relative, Hassan al-Meqdad, in Syria that same month.