Free Republic

An Islamist group warned the Lebanese army on Monday it would pay dearly for the arrest of a suspected Muslim militant. In a statement, quoted by Reuters, the group, Jamaat an-Nour, also stated it was responsible for planting a bomb at a mosque frequented by a cleric who helped in the arrest. The army defused a bomb on Saturday at a mosque in Sidon, where Muslim clerics last week handed over Badie Hamadeh, a Lebanese man charged with killing three security officers before taking refuge in a Palestinian refugee camp. In its statement, Jamaat an-Nour alluded to the bomb incident...