by AP – BEIRUT — Lebanon’s state news agency says
Beirut will file a lawsuit against the suspect behind the New Year’s
terror attack in Istanbul that killed 39 people, including three
Lebanese citizens. The agency says a Justice
Ministry official has been appointed to defend the rights of the
Lebanese victims and sue the suspect, who was recently detained, before
Turkish courts. The official was not named. The Dec. 31 attack, which also wounded six Lebanese nationals, was claimed by the Islamic State group. The National News Agency
said on Friday that if needed, the ministry will finance and send one or
more lawyers for the case in Turkey. The accused perpetrator of
the nightclub attack, an Uzbek national who reportedly trained in
Afghanistan, was detained in Istanbul two weeks after the assault.