Detained Aussie cabbie may have al-Qaeda link
by Martin Chulov and Richard Kerbaj from The Australian
A Tripoli car dealer who rents a shop next to a shed owned by Australian man Omar Hadba - where almost 500kg of military weapons were allegedly found hidden ... Mr Chawk said his neighbour, who had moved from Sydney eight years ago, was a committed follower of the Salafi strand of Islam who kept a low profile in Tripoli with his wife and five children ... As revealed in The Australian yesterday, weapons in the workshop were allegedly seized by the Lebanese army on Saturday night, hours before soldiers stormed a nearby apartment building, killing six alleged terrorists who were believed to be members of a Fatah al-Islam cell.