Mirza calls for death penalty in Behsas case
State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza demanded the death penalty for a Lebanese, Saudi, and seven Palestinians for “undermining state security” by blowing up of a bus carrying Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) members on September 2008 in Tripoli.

Mirza asked the Investigative Magistrate in charge of the case Nabil Sahari to charge Lebanese Abdel-Ghani Jawhar, Palestinians Khaled al-Jaber, Mohammad Azzam, Osama al-Shihabi, Ghazi Abdallah, Abdel-Rahman Awad, Alaa Mehrez, Hamza Kassem, and Saudi citizen Obeid al-Kufeil Nabil Abdel-Rahman for the deliberate killing and committing of terrorist acts undermining security, crimes that are punishable by death. Mirza called Sahari to issue arrest warrants against the perpetrators and refer them to Beirut’s Justice council for trial.

He also ordered banning the trial of 30 accused individuals for the lack of enough evidence of involvement or membership in the Fatah al-Islam militant group. He also asked for suspending the search for 20 individuals and recalling their outstanding arrest warrants.