Five Hezbollah members before court accused of killing Private Séan Rooney

A MILITARY JUDGE has accused five members of Hezbollah of killing Irish United Nations peacekeeper Séan Rooney in December last year.

Mohammad Ayyad, who is the only man already in custody after Hezbollah handed him over to the army in December, is accused along with four other members of the group of “intentional homicide”. “Some of them could be heard saying ‘we are Hezbollah’ and using walkie-talkies to communicate,” the indictment added.Hezbollah has repeatedly denied involvement in the incident, and its security chief Wafic Safa has described the killing as “unintentional”.Ayyad was charged at the time “with killing the Irish soldier and attempting to kill his three comrades by shooting them with a machine gun”, an official had told AFP.

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