Naharnet Newsdesk - Trial of Five Lebanese in Germany Bomb Plot Adjourned
Trial of Five Lebanese in Germany Bomb Plot Adjourned
A Beirut court on Tuesday adjourned until December 11 the trial of five Lebanese accused of plotting to bomb trains in Germany in July 2006, the national news agency said. Judge Helene Iskandar, head of the Beirut criminal court, said the session was adjourned after one of the suspects, Jihad Hamad, did not appear due to health reasons. Hamad, 22, is among four suspects in custody, along with Khaled al-Hajj Dib, 19, Ayman Hawwa, 22, and Khalil Bubu, 23. Another suspect, Yusef Mohammed al-Hajj Dib, who is in custody in Germany, is being tried in absentia. The five suspects are being charged for attempting "to carry out mass killing in two passenger trains in Germany on July 31 by using incendiary materials confiscated by German authorities," a Lebanese judicial source said. The four suspects in custody, if found guilty, could be jailed for a maximum of 15 years. Dib could be sentenced to a longer prison term. Hamad confessed under judicial interrogation on October 11 to having placed a suitcase containing explosives on a train in Germany in July 2006.
