Radical Lebanon Cleric Bakri Jailed for Life

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Asharq Al-Awsat/AFP:

11/12/10

BEIRUT (AFP) – Radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri has been sentenced to life in prison by a Lebanese military court on a host of charges, including inciting murder and belonging to an armed faction, a judicial official said Friday.

The Syrian-born Bakri, who holds Lebanese nationality and lives in the Lebanese northern port city of Tripoli, was not in the court when the sentence was read.

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Bakri lived in Britain for 20 years before being banned from returning there in 2005 after the authorities deemed his presence "not conducive to the public good."

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