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Lebanon rejects bail for four in 60 Minutes abduction case

Bad news for Nine as four men behind bars in Lebanon have had their bail application rejected.

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Four men behind bars in Lebanon have had their bail application rejected by a court in Beirut.

Australian Adam Whittington, his colleague Craig Michael and Lebanese men Mohammed Hamza and Khaled Barbour. All four were recently moved from Beirut to a jail about an hour and a half away in Lebanon’s north.

Lawyers said Ali Elamine, father of the abducted children, has refused to drop charges or support bail for the four men.

Judge Rami Abdullah will tell prosecutors by Monday what charges should be pursued against all involved in the case, including the 60 Minutes crew arrested in Beirut.

This week supporters of Adam Whittington protested outside Nine’s Willoughby headquarters, calling on the network to help secure a deal similar to the one which freed the 60 Minutes crew and mother Sally Faulkner.

“Channel Nine’s set the precedent of 500 [thousand dollars] US, that’s $680,000…Australian at this moment,” Whittington’s father David Whittington told SKY News.

“Because they’ve set that, and they’ve put the open chequebook on the table, that’s the precedent. He [Elamine] won’t budge.”

Nine is yet to reveal the findings of its internal review into the saga.

Source: News Corp, Fairfax

Photo: Twitter

6 Responses

    1. Hah! “No soldier left behind” is pretty much a movie fiction, based on a post-WWII US program to repatriate remains, a similar post-Korean War program to search for MIAs/POWs, the creed created for the Army Rangers in 1974, and slipped into the general US Soldier’s Creed in 2003…

      Just my little tidbit of information for the day 😉

      1. Actually, it’s the current U.S. Soldier’s Creed
        “I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States, and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade…..”

        1. As I said, only since 2003 (by the “Warrior Ethos” part of the “Task Force Soldier” initiative). Before then, from 1974 it was part of the creed of the US Army Ranger Regiment only, and before 1974 it basically meant ‘tidy up after the war is over’.

          I did say “pretty much”, not “totally”…

          FWIW, I don’t believe it’s part of any official Australian military contract, creed, or motto – though it is popularly believed to be (even by some servicepeople), and many unofficial sources state it is.

          1. SAS are pretty big on not leaving your mates behind. You might call it a credo rather than a creed.

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