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French court orders release of Lebanese militant behind 1982 murders of US, Israeli diplomats
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA French court has ordered the release of Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for 40 years after being convicted over the killing of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors say.
The court says Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over “complicity in the assassinations” of US military attaché Lt. Col. Charles R. Ray and Israeli diplomat Yaacov Bar-Simantov in 1982, will be released on December 6 on the condition that he leaves France, French anti-terror prosecutors say in a statement to AFP, adding that they will appeal.
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