Lebanon: Questioning Amnesty for Islamic Militants · Global Voices
Jennifer Brea

Frencheagle writes that certain members of Fatah Islam implicated in the decapitation of 27 people on the first night of the conflict with the Lebanese government were not only granted amnesty by parliament [Fr] in 2005, but were arrested last year–and then promptly released–for vandalizing the Danish embassy.  “You don't release [people who repeatedly murder and thieve] so easily, and you don't release that kind of person for political reasons.”