Israel court upholds three-year-old detention of al Qaeda suspect


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  • Tuesday, 19 Nov 2013

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday a more than three-year-old detention without trial of a Palestinian suspected of being an al Qaeda biological weapons expert.

Samer al-Baraq was born in Kuwait, studied microbiology in Pakistan, underwent military training in Afghanistan and was recruited in 2001 to al Qaeda by Ayman al-Zawahri, who is the group's leader today, according to Israeli prosecutors.

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