Now Lebanon - Mawlawi’s case linked to Al-Qaeda, source says, May 15 2012

A well-informed source said that Shadi al-Mawlawi’s case was linked to a “terrorist group” linked to “Al-Qaeda,” An-Nahar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

“There is information that Government Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr also indicted [in addition to Mawlawi] a Jordanian, a Palestinian and a Qatari for belonging to a terrorist armed group,” the daily reported.

Meanwhile, As-Safir newspaper quoted an unnamed security source as saying that the General Security arrested Mawlawi based “on serious data” which Mawlawi himself “proved in his quick confession” to the charges made against him.

“European security sources presented information on Mawlawi’s terrorist activity outside [Lebanon],” the source added.

Military Investigative Judge Nabil Wehbi on Monday issued an arrest warrant against Mawlawi for “belonging to an armed terrorist group.” 

Mawlawi was arrested Saturday in Tripoli by General Security. Afterward, 100 young men blocked the northern and southern roads into Tripoli.

According to press reports, Mawlawi had been “lured” by General Security to a social services center in North Lebanon’s Tripoli, where he was detained.

Deadly clashes first broke out on Saturday between the Islamists and the army as young demonstrators, sympathizers of the revolt in Syria, tried to approach the offices of the pro-President Bashar al-Assad Syrian Social Nationalist Party. 

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