{"id":7452,"date":"2013-07-31T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/nigeria-closes-case-in-hezbollah-linked-lebanese-trial\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:46:17","slug":"nigeria-closes-case-in-hezbollah-linked-lebanese-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-closes-case-in-hezbollah-linked-lebanese-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria closes case in Hezbollah-linked Lebanese trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the resumed trial of suspected Lebanese terrorists before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Adeniyi Ademola, digital video clips of interview sessions held separately by security operatives with the suspected terrorists, Mustapha Fawaz, Abdallah Tahini and Talal Ahmad Roda, revealed that one of the suspects took aerial photograph of strategic buildings in Abuja from atop Sheraton building.<\/p>\n The digital video clips contained in Eight DVD copies, were tendered before the court by the prosecutor, Mr. Simon Egede who is the Director of Public Prosecution and were admitted in evidence by the court.<\/p>\n The suspected terrorists lawyer, Chief Robert Clarke, a senior advocate of Nigeria, did not object to the admissibility of the 8 DVDs as well as the statement of the tenth prosecuting witness. However, he indicated that he would challenge the credibility of the DVDs.<\/p>\n Justice Adeniyi granted the request of Mr. Egede for the video clips to be played in the court. In the first video clip played on a projector, the prosecution’s tenth witness identified Mr. Talal Rhoda, the 3rd accused person, who was found and arrested at 3 Gaya Road, Kano on 26th May, 2013.<\/p>\n The interview session revealed that Rhoda admitted having knowledge of the existence of a bunker in the house he was found and arrested in Kano as well as his admission that he serviced the weapons hidden underneath the bunker from time to time.<\/p>\n Similarly, Mustapha Fawaz, the 1st accused, during his own interview session as shown in the video clip, admitted taking aerial pictures of strategic buildings in Abuja from the Sheraton building.<\/p>\n He stated that he conducted some foreigners round the federal capital city in a bid to locate the Israeli Embassy in Abuja.<\/p>\n The video clips also revealed one of the suspects admitting that they received military training in 1991 as members of the Resistant Movement in Lebanon and that there was a surveillance camera installed at Amigo supermarket in Abuja, with which they captured images of Israelis who patronize the supermarket.<\/p>\n After playing the relevant portions of the interview as contained in the 8 DVDs as tendered by the prosecution, the prosecutor, Mr. Simon Egede, closed his case.<\/p>\n
Nnamdi Felix \/ Abuja<\/strong><\/p>\n