Two members of Muslim terrorist group Fatah al-Islam were indicted Tuesday by a Lebanese military judge for possession of arms and referred to a military court for trial in the case of a 2009 incident in which rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon.
Judicial sources told Lebanon's The Daily Star Lebanese military examining Judge Imad al-Zein issued the indictments against Maher Zaghloul and Khaled Youssef, both members of Fatah al-Islam, the group which fought fierce battles against the Lebanese Army in Nahr el-Bared in 2007.
Nahr el-Bared, in northern Lebanon, is largely populated by Arabs descended from those who fled Israel in 1948 at the behest of Arab leaders who launched a failed war of annihalation on the newborn Jewish state.
In October 2009, a Katuysha rocket was fired into Israel from the southern village of Houla. The Israeli Army responded with artillery rounds. Although no casualties or damage were reported from either side, the incident prompted international condemnation.
Zein referred the two men, already convicted on terrorism charges, for prosecution to the country’s Military Court on charges of firing rockets from Houla into Israel.