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A Muslim group said it is holding a Belgian doctor, Jan Cools, who disappeared in south Lebanon on May 21. “The Soldiers of Truth,” a previously unknown group, said in a statement given to news agencies in Beirut that Cools will be put on trial for spying for Western countries and Israel. Cools, 32, an aid worker with a Norwegian group, disappeared after leaving the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh near the Lebanese port of Tyre. The statement, in language suggesting the group is made up of Shia Muslim militants, charged that Cools was recruited by intelligence agencies in 1982.
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