Suspect in U.S. Envoy’s Death Found in Beirut Jail
<i> Reuters</i>
BEIRUT —
Lebanese authorities hunting the killers of a U.S. ambassador murdered in Beirut during the 1975-90 civil war finally found one of the suspects--in a Beirut jail.
Bassem Mohammed Farkh is serving a sentence for heroin dealing, handed down in March.
Farkh is one of three suspects in the 1976 murder of U.S. Ambassador Francis E. Meloy, economic counselor Robert O. Waring and their Lebanese driver.
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