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Security services are investigating reports that T.M.T., a Palestinian in the Al Nusrah Front, is recruiting fighters for terrorist attacks in Lebanon and is in "constant contact" with al Qaeda in Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq; and that Ghazi A., a Lebanese man from Wadi Khaled, is working with Abdel-Mohsen H., a Lebanese explosives expert, to train and equip Al Nusrah cells in Lebanon. Yahya Allouki, the brother of wanted militia commander Ziad Allouki, was arrested in Tripoli on weapons charges. A military judge called for the death penalty for 10 people, including a Syrian intelligence officer, accused of plotting the Aug. 23, 2013 twin car bombings in Tripoli.