Fayad Charged with Supporting Colombian Terrorist Group

The State Commissioner to the Military Court charged on Tuesday Ali Fayad with backing a Colombian terrorist organization and selling arms and ammunition to the group.

Judge Saqr Saqr issued the charges against Fayad, also known as Ali Amin, after receiving his file from Judge Samir Hammoud.

Saqr accused Fayad of backing the Colombian group and selling it arms, missiles and other material to use them in attacks against Americans.

The judge referred the suspect to First Military Examining Magistrate Riad Abu Ghida.

Fayad was one from a group of three who were arrested in Prague in 2014 while allegedly trying to sell weapons to undercover U.S. law enforcement agents who pretended to be from a Colombian terrorist group.

Fayad returned to Beirut on February 1, the same day that five Czech citizens who went missing in Lebanon in July were set free in a swap deal struck by the Czech government for their release.

G.K.

M.T.