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Lebanon charges 10 Palestinians for planning attacks on UN force

By The Associated Press

Judicial authorities charged Tuesday 10 Palestinians for planning
to carry out terrorist acts including attempts to kill UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, judicial officials and the state-run news agency said.

Military court magistrate Jean Fahd charged the 10 suspects, of which four are still at large, with forming an armed group to carry out terrorists acts, acquiring weapons and explosives and attempting to kill members of the international force, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they being authorized to speak to the media.

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If sentenced they could get up to life in prison, the state-run National News Agency said.

On Monday, officials said Lebanese military intelligence detained a terrorist network for allegedly plotting attacks against the UN peacekeepers. The army said in a statement Monday that the detainees were monitoring the movements of the UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon.

The statement said the group planted a bomb near the southern city of Tyre to target a UN patrol, but that it didn't explode due to a problem in the trigger.

The detainees also allegedly admitted they planned to plant two other bombs in the same area and detonate them within a short period to cause maximum casualties among the forces, the statement said.

There has been two major attacks against UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon killing six in recent months.

In August, Lebanese authorities arrested two Palestinians in connection with a roadside bombing that targeted UN peacekeepers on July 16. The bombing of a UN jeep in the southern village of Qassimiyeh caused damage but no casualties.

No group has claimed responsibility for the Qassimiyeh attack or the June 24 blast that killed six Spanish peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. But in a July videotape, al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri blessed the first attack, fueling speculation that it was carried out by al-Qaida-linked militants.

Thousands of UN peacekeepers were deployed in southern Lebanon last year along with 15,000 Lebanese troops following a 34-day war between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group

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1.	Let me say it for you, PLEASE	19:49	\|	Jasmine Murphy	16/10/07

2.	Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon	21:07	\|	Dakkar	16/10/07

3.	Jasmine - No. The regular dhimmies will avoid this topic	21:09	\|	Dakkar	16/10/07

4.	Couldn`t have possibly have been Palestinian`s	21:25	\|	* BEN JABO	16/10/07

5.	UNGRATEFUL TO HOSTS. SHAME ON THESE PALESTINIANS.	21:52	\|	JACKAL	16/10/07

6.	Ben Jabo - Shux !	22:36	\|	Dakkar	16/10/07

7.	It was Hadassah ladies	23:25	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	16/10/07

8.	dakkar...........	23:48	\|	maria	16/10/07

9.	LEBANON IS AN APARTHEID STATE CREATING DESPERATE NON CITIZENS	01:54	\|	Poly Ester	17/10/07

10.	maria	02:37	\|	Dakkar	17/10/07

11.	Poly Ester	02:40	\|	Dakkar	17/10/07

12.	IT`S RATHER UNUSUAL	06:35	\|	* BEN JABO	17/10/07

13.	#5 JACKAL	15:45	\|	* BEN JABO	18/10/07

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