"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

Lübnan Marunîleri / Yasin Atlıoğlu

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Academics arrested in n. Lebanon- The Daily Star

TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Lebanese authorities have arrested six members of a criminal cell, including a university professor and two students, in the northern city of Tripoli, security sources said Wednesday.

The sources told The Daily Star that the cell, whose members have warrants out for their arrest, had been under surveillance.

They said the Lebanese Army's Counterterrorism Bureau made the arrests after raiding an apartment in the Tripoli neighborhood of Zahrieh late Tuesday.

The suspects include Wiam Mustafa, a 28-year-old professor at Lebanese French University (ULF) in the northern province of Koura, as well as Bilal al-Mustafa, an 18-year-old vocational student, and Abdul-Rahman al-Sayyed, a 23-year-old civil engineering student.